Word: midwesternisms
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...production of The Male Animal, it is the least animalistic of the cast's nine males who gives this version its spirit and drive. Actors in the play should have the teamwork of the football squad at mythical Midwestern U. And if this time there are a few too many fumbles, the HDC evens the score by coming up with a triple threat in the lead role...
...survey of 145 major companies by the Midwestern Placement Association resulted in good news for college seniors, food for thought for economists: next year's college graduates can expect better-paying jobs than ever before. Sixty-four companies reported that they would give higher starting salaries than they gave this year; not one company expected to pay less. Inexperienced graduates taking technical jobs (engineers, chemists, physicists) can expect monthly salaries of from $301 to $375; nontechnical beginners might have to take as little as $276 a month...
...refugees from NATO and Iron Curtain countries outside the rigid quotas of the 1952 McCarran Act.* The President, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Psychological Strategy Board had advocated the measure as an effective tool of U.S. foreign policy. McCarran, backed by several Southern Democrats and Midwestern Republicans, had fought the bill hard. Giving ground slowly, he had offered to compromise at 120,000 refugees, then 124,000, then 185,000, then 194,000. Turned down each time, he was ready, he told Hennings, to make a "final" offer...
...largest inland barge systems in the U.S., operating on 3,300 miles of the Mississippi and its tributaries in eleven Midwestern and Southern states. Physical assets: 253 barges, 4 tugs, 20 towboats, 20 new barges and one new towboat to be delivered this year, and a profitable 18-mile railroad...
...Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...