Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocking-chair Salesman Harry Boling is no man to sit back in his rocker and let the world go by. As a Midwestern representative of the King Specialty Manufacturing Co. of Mayfield, Ky., he sold $100,000 worth of furniture last year, hopes to double it this year. Nevertheless, Salesman Boling thought he was missing a potentially huge market, and wrote to his Congressman, Indiana's Republican Earl Wilson, to ask him to do something about it. Wilson solemnly entered Boling's tongue-in-cheek letter in the Congressional Record...
...least expect them to conform to standards of dress and appearance which have thus far set us aside from the type of college student current in the ads of the Coca-Cola Company. To the casual observer, the Yard must appear only slightly different from the campus of the midwestern coeducational university where faddists with their beanies, blue jeans, and dangling shirt tails rule...
Theoretically, these radio amateurs can be of vital importance in times of emergency. Although the chances are small that they might have to supplement regular communications channels--almost an annual chore for midwestern hams in flood areas--they can be of assistance in relaying messages from other disaster areas to relatives and rescue workers...
Returning to the U.S., he hit the lecture trail-a tall, gentle man with an open Midwestern face and the anxious, intent eyes of an Elijah. In one year he spent more than one-third of his nights in sleeping cars. He left the Times. He and his wife sent their children to college and lived on what he made from his lectures and an occasional article. He organized Federal Union, Inc. as the holding company of his crusade. After France fell, he scraped together $2,385 in cash and promises and bought a full-page ad in the Times...
...similar storage library is at present being designed to be constructed on the University of Chicago campus. When ton Midwestern universities got together to draw its basic plans, the Carnegie Foundation, convinced by the New England Deposit Library's success, was among the agencies giving financial support...