Word: midwesternisms
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Other cheerleaders at several Midwestern colleges shared Miss Pinkus's sentiment, but a source not far from the University administration stated last night that such opinions were not relevant in considering...
...year of bumper crops and rising prices, farmers west of the Mississippi do not generally credit Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson with their prosperity-in fact, quite the contrary. The farm vote, traditionally Republican, remains a real Democratic hope (TIME, Oct. 20). The best Republican hope is that Midwestern farmers will vote according to the jingle in their pockets on election...
...Right-to-work laws forbid union membership as a condition of employment, thus outlaw union shops, thereby go one step beyond the federal Taft-Hartley Act's no-closed-shop provision. Eighteen states, mostly Southern and Midwestern, already have R.T.W. laws...
Latecomer. On the one side is the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, a Midwestern giant which has belatedly joined the rush for overseas reserves and is ready to pay to get in on the comparatively few good areas still unallocated in the Middle East. For an offshore Iranian concession earlier this year, Indiana Standard paid a $25 million cash bonus, promised to spend $82 million in twelve years developing the area, and by accepting the state oil agency as equal operating partner entitled to half of future profits, in effect gave the Iranians a 75-25 share of total profits...
With so many races being contested so closely, the bloody Midwestern battleground offers chances for a congressional sweep by either party. But in the old Republican heartland the Democrats are now clearly running horse races instead of turkey trots in district after district-and the Republicans can no longer count on these historic precincts to make up for deficiencies elsewhere...