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...port on the Great Lakes, exuberant civic welcomes awaited the ships. Cleveland geared up a ten-week celebration of the seaway opening. Chicago organized a parade to city hall for the first ship to arrive. Even as the lock gates yawned a welcome to the world's shipping, Midwestern industrialists began to count their gains. In a bow to the seaway's competition, Eastern railroads proposed a reduction of 10% to 30% on freight between the lake ports and the Atlantic seaboard...
Congressman Herter's most important achievement was helping to sell the U.S., especially skeptical Midwestern Republicans, on the Marshall Plan idea. In 1947 Herter proposed creation of a special Select Committee on Foreign Aid, became its chairman, shrewdly arranged that its 17 members should include a sprinkling of deep-dyed isolationists. Leading his committee on an allwork, no-play tour of war-ravaged Europe, he saw to it that his fellow Congressmen got an eye-opening look at the ugly realities of postwar Europe. Result: the Herter committee's reports came out so staunchly for aid to Europe...
Kitchen Talk. The Farm Journal does its energetic best to cultivate its sources. Nine regional editors spend most of their time prowling about farms, Government stations and university "Ag" departments. On a recent trip, Dean Wolf, one of the magazine's three Midwestern editors, stumbled across three major items for his futures list in one day: a tractor rig that on one trip plowed, spread fertilizer, pulled a harrow and spread insecticide; an experiment that took piglets from their mothers by surgery and raised them in disease-free surroundings; and an operating "pig factory" which successfully used new techniques...
...number of exciting looking companies but was having trouble getting market recognition. The partners decided to help by making a market for the stocks, acquired an inventory of shares to trade. Because there was a public market in their securities, companies such as Air borne Instruments, Machlett Laboratories and Midwestern Instruments found that they were in better positions to consider mergers and expansion plans...
...varsity swimming team closes its 1958-59 season this weekend at the NCAA championships at Cornell. Defending champion Michigan will lead the awesome array of powerful midwestern schools, which have much greater talent than even Eastern winner Yale. The Big Ten colleges in particular possess world-calibre swimmers, which should easily beat Yale's contingent...