Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relatives from Calhoun First National Bank, of which he was president, was "typical of Southern banking practices." Said a spokesman for the Amercan Bankers Association: "We don't see that as normal or typical, whether it's Southern or Northern or whatever." The President of a Midwestern bank put it more bluntly: "Bert Lance has given the ranking business a black...
Song of Solomon is an exuberant expansion of her themes and literary techniques. Using legend and the tradition of black oral history, she traces a family from Reconstruction to the civil rights movement-from slavery in the South, to farming in Pennsylvania, to middle-class respectability in a Midwestern town. Song of Solomon will inevitably be compared with Roots. But any comparison must end with the superior quality of Morrison's imagination and prose. Her fictional family is stuck with the portentous name of Dead, the result of an error at the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia...
Without increasing the federal budget, the Government might sensibly redirect some of its stimulative spending?a bit less for the booming Sunbelt, a bit more for the Northern and Midwestern states, where the urban underclass is concentrated. In 1975, for every tax dollar sent to Washington from the Midwestern states, 760 returned; the Northeastern states got back 860; but the South collected $1.14 and the West $1.20. One reason for the disparity is that many corporations have their headquarters in the Northeast and Midwest, from which they pay taxe based on their total national sales. But there are other factors...
This month End of the World will come to 200 Southern and Midwestern theaters. The film tells of an earthling scientist who comes upon a band of aliens cleverly disguised as six nuns and a priest. Filmed in three weeks, the picture cost $500,000 (compared with Star Wars'$9.5 million). If the world survives this picture, End Producer Charles Band plans to return by Christmas with another quickie titled Laser Blast...
...controllers sent to Oshkosh from other Midwestern airports to keep the participants out of one another's struts, the convention was not only the "world's largest aviation event" but also the world's biggest traffic jam. Chicago's O'Hare, the world's busiest airport, averages some 2,000 landings and takeoffs a day; there were more than 4,800 daily at Oshkosh. Since many of the planes were not even equipped with radios, the controllers were forced to rely on red smoke signals. Even those flyers with radios were not much better...