Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like inveterate gamblers, St. Louis ball fans keep coming back to Busch Stadium even though they are losing. The Cardinals are the only team in town, and the muggy Midwestern summer is never so dismal that it cannot be brightened by the sight of Stan Musial at the plate or the pleasure of second-guessing hard-luck Manager Eddie Stanky. For a few weeks this spring, the bleacher jockeys even got a kick out of razzing Rookie Wally Moon in the outfield. "Where's Enos?" they would yell. Did that lanky, crew-cut college boy really think he could...
...said Johnson, vice chairman of Automatic Canteen Co. of America. His proposal: shift the franchise to Kansas City, Mo., where Johnson happens to own the only big baseball stadium in town. He is willing to pay $4,500,000 for the privilege of giving the A's that Midwestern cure...
Died. Hugh Alfred Butler. 76, longtime (since 1941) Old Guard Republican Senator from Nebraska; of a stroke; in Washington. A tireless spokesman for Midwestern farm-bloc isolationism, wealthy (grain-trading) Hugh Butler, in 14 years in the Senate, came out against lend-lease, wartime extension of the draft act, reciprocal trade, Social Security, all Government subsidies, the Marshall Plan, Point Four and Korean intervention, last year reversed his field and became an ardent champion of Hawaiian statehood...
...Pacific Intermountain, which has just ordered $4,000,000 worth of new equipment, will pay Fast Freight's owners $3,270,000 and 60,000 shares of Pacific Intermountain stock, will then have a combined fleet of 2,642 tractors and trailers serving 25,000 Western and Midwestern towns. Combined business: $40 million annually, second biggest in the U.S., behind Manhattan's $44 million Associated Transport...
...February day in 1949, however, an elderly American agricultural expert named Walter Eugene Packard drove out to Anthele from Athens. As plainly and unmistakably American as the prostyle of a Midwestern bank, he joined the villagers for coffee and sweets at the local inn and promptly got down to business. "Some of us," he told his listeners, "think you can grow things on this land of yours. Rice, for instance." Torn between skepticism and wonder, the farmers of Anthele listened respectfully as Packard went on to outline a plan whereby U.S. money and Greek labor might be combined to test...