Word: midwesterner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this picture-which was written by Inge but heavily edited and then directed by Kazan-a relatively simple story of adolescent love and frustration in a small Midwestern town has been jargoned-up and chaptered-out till it sounds like an angry psychosociological monograph describing the sexual mores of the heartless heartland...
...Sioux Falls, S. Dak., Democrats from 14 Midwestern states powwowed with National Chairman John Bailey, who praised to the skies the record of his own party and denounced that of the opposition. "John F. Kennedy needs the obstructionist Republican votes of the Midwest replaced by progressive Democratic votes," cried Bailey, "in order to carry out the program you and I adopted at our convention and placed before the voters in our campaign...
...nations is likely to increase. As part of the price of entry into the Market, Britain will probably have to give somewhat less preferential treatment to Australia, Canada, India and the other Commonwealth countries. As Brit ain buys less from them, they will buy less from Britain. Already some Midwestern manufacturers believe that Canada may quickly open up to more imports from the U.S. tool and die industry. On the other hand, there will be stiffer competition in markets of the Commonwealth from such Common Market powers as Germany, France and Italy...
Nearness to the huge Mesabi iron-ore range and Midwestern grain fields has made Duluth, the western terminus of the St. Lawrence Seaway, one of the busiest ports in the U.S. But Duluth (pop. 106,-800) has another asset, which is making its own unique contribution to the growth of the thriving city: four big scholarship funds, including two in operation for the first time this year. They have raised the educational level of its high school system, and will support 286 Minnesota students on college scholarships this year, of whom all but 72 are graduates of Duluth high schools...
Potential Gains. U.S. shippers are slower to switch from time-tried methods of transport. Many a Midwestern grain exporter still prefers to barge his payload down the Mississippi to New Orleans, where shipping schedules are more regular and where the cargo can be put aboard 60,000-ton vessels that sometimes offer cheaper rates than the 15,000-ton ships plying the St. Lawrence. U.S. Seaway authorities want the Government to publicize the economic advantages of their route, but Congress is wary of favoring the waterways over the hard-lobbying railroads and truckers...