Word: midwesternisms
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...heavily marbled porterhouse at 79?-and impatiently demanded more when supplies temporarily ran short. Out on the broad Midwest ranges, cattlemen were not so happy. Beef prices have been sliding for months, are expected to stay low most of this year. On ten major Midwestern markets from Denver to Chicago, grass-fed steers that brought 28½? per Ib. in May sold for only 23? in December. In Kansas City, choice cattle slipped from 31? per Ib. in midsummer to 27¾? last week. Hogs and lambs have also dropped more than seasonally...
...state legislature, and some upstate Republicans, solid for Nixon, had threatened to give Rockefeller embarrassing trouble at home (adding to the circumstance that Tom Dewey and other Manhattan G.O.P. bigwigs had cold-shouldered him). Insiders reported that Rocky had all but decided to bow out before starting on his Midwestern trip, had even authorized a preliminary draft of his exit lines. Apparently the results of the trip did nothing to change his mind...
...prices sagged to a new low of $11 in Midwestern markets last week...
...replace the present system of price supports, Rocky advocated what he called "stabilization supports," based on production costs and farmers' net income, rather than the prevailing parity concept of equalized purchasing power. But his explanation of what he meant was hazy. Two Midwestern farm experts who read the speech came to opposite conclusions. One said that Rockefeller had "turned his back on Benson." The other called Rockefeller "Benson in sheep's clothing...
Exit Society. Most U.S. heiresses got either what they wanted or what they deserved. At the hub of their international set was the portly, roguish Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, and moneyed maidens with broad Midwestern accents found Queen Victoria's son much more democratic than Manhattan's formidable Mrs. Astor and her chosen 400. At one time, the prince was much smitten by a Cleveland-born Miss Chamberlain. She reportedly cooled his ardors with...