Word: midwesterner
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...wonder where she picked up the Midwestern accent, consider chasing after her. And what's all this countess business...
...shutdown could imperil the delivery of 6 million tons of Canadian wheat and animal feed bound for the Soviet Union. At the port of Milwaukee, ( 20,000 tons of food destined for famine victims in Africa and India last week sat piled up on the docks. Supplies headed for Midwestern factories were also laid up. Three ships carrying gigantic stamping presses for a General Motors plant in Ohio sat on the Ontario side, unable to proceed to Cleveland for unloading...
...natural history, sitcom humor and the Old Testament. For the Flood there is conflict, economic disaster and pollution; the part of Noah's Ark is played by the Bahia de Darwin, a cruise ship that shuttles tourists from Ecuador to the Galapagos. There are baggy-pants characters including a Midwestern con man, a widowed schoolteacher, a Japanese computer wizard and a German sea captain. All converge for the Nature Cruise of the Century, an event that promises the company of Jackie Onassis, Henry Kissinger, Mick Jagger, William F. Buckley Jr., Walter Cronkite, Rudolf Nureyev and Paloma Picasso...
...Manufacturers Hanover's move. Said Leo Mullin, executive vice president of First National Bank of Chicago, which charges 19.8%: "We are always looking at the variable features of the card business." In California, Bank of America, which also charges 19.8%, said its rates were under review. But one Midwestern banker privately doubted that many institutions would reduce their charges soon. "Why should they?" he observed. "They're growing fat on interest income, and until competitive pressures force a cut, they're not going to give up the golden...
...mile of flatland wedged between the Meramec River and the highway, and in 1925 sold plots for $67.50 each to anyone who agreed to buy a subscription to the paper (which is now defunct). After World War II it became a regular working-class town. Times Beach, like many Midwestern river settlements, had a tang more Southern than latitude alone could explain and a small-town coziness that is rare these days. People who liked it really liked it, and stayed. Land enough to build a house could be bought for $800, even after the local boom of the 1970s...