Word: midwesternisms
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...president of the Chicago Stock Exchange. To get ready for the job, Jim Day helped build a dam in Arizona, made and lost a fortune in real estate, took a law degree, was vice president of the Exchange for two years. His plan for La Salle Street: get more Midwestern stocks...
...Midwestern manufacturing executive added: ". . . Only by a dissemination of factual material on an unbiased basis to the peoples of all countries can we hope for an understanding of our common problems...
...Another Midwestern manufacturing executive echoed many of our correspondents in saying: ". . . Since the only practical means of getting this economically-groggy old world back to livable conditions is through the exchange of merchandise and services . . . and since the type of people interested in publications such as TIME constitute the intellectual, social, and economic group upon which such exchange must depend, your plan should prove not only very helpful but very successful...
...variety of reasons, all economically sound from his point of view. When he saw last year's terrific increases in consumption, he began to think in terms of shortages and higher prices to ease the shortages. The higher prices are still forestalled by ceilings-but last week some Midwestern farmers were asking and getting such bonuses for a carload of grain as six pairs of nylon stockings, a heavy-duty truck tire or a fine bird...
...years Indiana was the champion low hurdle for Midwestern powerhouses. The University had the smallest male enrollment in the conference, and home games in Bloomington drew so poorly that the team played mostly on the road. First crack out of the box this season, the worm turned with a 13-7 upset of Michigan. Last week the Hoosiers gave Pittsburgh a 19-0 mud bath. This week, if they get by their traditional "Old Oaken Bucket" set-to with Purdue, the unbeaten but once-tied (by Northwestern) Hoosiers will wrap up their first Big Ten (now nine) crown...