Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration's proposed defense budget. The new defense program, he said, "allocates funds as justly and as wisely as possible among the three armed services." Then the President turned to the "fortress" theory of U.S. foreign policy, the up-to-date version of isolationism dear to many a Midwestern heart. Said he: "All of us have learned-first from the onslaught of Nazi aggression, then from Communist aggression-that all free nations must stand together or they shall fall separately." Rejecting the "partial unity" advocated by Ohio's Bob Taft in his explosive Cincinnati speech (TIME, June...
After Oregon's Wayne Morse bolted the Republican Party, the Democratic liberals besought Johnson to throw Democratic weight behind Morse's demand for seats on important committees. Johnson decided that the Oregon maverick was a Republican problem and the Democrats should not take him over. When one Midwestern Democrat reported a Morse threat to campaign against him if the Democrats didn't come through, Johnson snapped: "You aren't trying to argue that we should give in to political blackmail...
...month in world history, and most of it disappeared from circulation in the darkened caves of U.S. movie theaters. Surveying the technological development that set the corn rolling, the Russians formally announced that they had invented the thing first. A Chicago beanery produced the 3-D Special, and a Midwestern minister gave a sermon on "Prayer-the Third Dimension." Exuberant Cinemogul George Skouras kissed Pageanteer Mike Todd in public. Somebody else brought out a Polaroid lorgnette. "Whaddya mean, vulgar?" cried one movieman. "Isn't the public entitled to be hit in the face...
...shippers are all boosters for the St. Lawrence Seaway. They know that what they are hauling represents only a small fraction of the overseas trade that could be carried on by Midwestern cities. One company, the Dutch Oranje line, is building a combination passenger-freighter which it hopes will be the pacesetter if the seaway project goes through...
...goose I had, too.") Sid Sorokin gets fed up and quits Sleep Tite. taking his luscious redhead with him, but the exact resolution of the plot isn't really important to Author Bissell or anyone else. It is the natural talk, the sure feeling for the pace of Midwestern life, the shrewd humor of such scenes as the union picnic, that make 7½ Cents, slight as it is, an oddly likable piece of Americana...