Word: midwesternisms
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...think of total war with no seaway. With the great Mesabi deposits inexorably running out, Labrador is the only known alternative source that could be made completely safe from submarines. This has lined the Pentagon up in earnest support of the seaway. It has also won over the Midwestern steel companies, many major manufacturers (including General Motors, Nash-Kelvinator, Ford) and some influential Senators-notably Ohio's Taft...
...residential street in the Midwestern town of Cedarsville, workmen were razing the fine old Johnston residence. At an upper window of his own house next door, Ralph Kempner watched the daily progress of destruction from a wheelchair, and backtracked in memory over the 70-odd years of his life. Cedarsville folk naturally wondered what old Kempner was thinking about, because he had always been such a cold, silent fish...
Johnson and Stark arrived at the proposals after comparing the University ROTC with two midwestern colleges. If the proposals are accepted, Stark estimates ROTC enrollment will be tripled...
...proved it by graduating from the University of Missouri a Phi Beta Kappa, then tried the newspaper business for three years, on small Midwestern papers and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. When the University of Missouri set up its new journalism school, Charlie Ross went back to teach, stayed at it for nine years before he went back to the P-D and a top-drawer job as head of its new Washington bureau...
...Russia's huge long swatch of chernozem is the biggest in the world, but most of it lies north of the latitude of Bangor, Me. (45th parallel) which means that its yield is much lower than the same type of land in the U.S.'s Midwestern wheat belt...