Word: midwesternisms
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...down a proposal for a still bigger farm-subsidy handout. There were some who thought that the shot would ring through the next session of Congress, might well signal the beginning of the end for the whole ramshackle $7 billion-a-year farm-subsidy program. The battle began because Midwestern farm Democrats had boldly determined to play election-year politics with wheat. In a straight party-line vote, they engineered the defeat (108-92) of a Senate-passed bill approved by the Administration, calling for a 20% cut in wheat acreage and a continued price support of 75% of parity...
...expects 85,000 visitors on good days, an average of 37,000 (v. 60,000 tops at Disneyland). Many of the park's features are undisguised advertisements : ye olde brewery is built and operated by Schaefer beer; Elsie the Borden cow is the most conspicuous resident of a Midwestern farm; the Bank of New York operates regular banking facilities (the building is ancient, but the interest is modern); the clocks in the Chicago and San Francisco railway stations bear the monogram of the Hamilton Watch Co. Nonetheless, three staunchly anticapitalist preview visitors were impressed; they were reporters from...
...sort of balanced cousin of the sicknik comedians, Newhart vaguely follows their technique and style, but delivers his material in quiet, well-scrubbed Midwestern inflections that keep things from toppling over the brink of sanity. As a driving instructor, he maintains classroom calm while he sits in the front seat of a car with a lady who goes 75 in her driveway. As an eager 1904 entrepreneur, he tries to start transcontinental passenger service at once by putting a toilet on the Wright brothers' plane. As a stiff-lipped submarine commander, he tells the crew: "I think our firing...
...leading figure in Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal brain trust. He talked so fast and so long for two days that he confused and angered the committee; he insisted that he had "a perfect right" to try to sway the FPC to grant a license to Midwestern Gas Transmission Co., a Tennessee Gas subsidiary, for a $52 million pipeline...
Barry sees the time coming when almost all polyethylene bags will be scented to match the product enclosed, even to spinach, orange and other odors for foods. There is even a better scent for mousetraps: one Midwestern maker has ordered pellets to give his traps the scent of chocolate or bacon, which mice prefer to cheese...