Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most respects, Bloomington, Ill. (pop. 36,800), is a typical bustling Midwestern market city. The one thing that makes Bloomington a bit different from the run-of-the-mill county seat is the presence of its largest employer, the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. This week State Farm will report that its premium income for the first half of this year was up nearly 11% to $281 million, and that in May the company signed up its seven millionth policyholder. All this handily helped State Farm hold its rank as the world's largest automobile insurance company...
...Turkey. In his 31 years as a Foreign Service officer, Ohio-born Kohler has rarely made headlines. He even looks far more like the bank teller he once was than like the suave, striped-pants stereotype of a professional diplomat; smallish and rumpled, he speaks in a flat Midwestern accent and wears indifferently tailored brown or blue suits. But he is regarded in Washington as a highly competent operator, and his considerable experience with the Russians goes back a long way. He speaks Russian, which has become a prerequisite for the top Moscow job. He was assigned to Moscow...
...Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the McClellan committee, complained that an Agriculture Department check of his correspondence with the department had inspired Democrats in his home state to ask Freeman for evidence of any connection between Mundt and Billie Sol. Growled Mundt to Minnesotan Freeman: "In the plain Midwestern language that we both understand. I ask you to put up or shut up! If you have any evidence, bring it out on the record and don't give it to a favored newsman." Freeman shrugged off the complaint: "There was no reason we shouldn't have conducted...
...Sebring dictum must be strictly observed: "Oil is for machinery and moving parts; unless you have a screw loose, it has no place on the head." Cigars, Facials. Chicago, for all its Midwestern spittoons-on-the-floor masculinity, has at least two beauty shops for men. Biggest is Bayard's Hair Studio, where it is not an uncommon sight to see a husky customer sitting with a cigar in his mouth and a hairnet on his head, as an operator uses a hand dryer to finish up his permanent wave. Owner Tom Bayard (who wears one of the toupees...
Most notable case in point was Dr.Ralph Elliott, a professor at the Midwestern Baptist Seminary in Kansas City...