Word: midwesternisms
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...epidemic has attacked a group of Midwestern states-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan-which normally have been relatively immune. Brightest spot was the South. In North Carolina the disease seemed to be subsiding. Texas, hardest hit in the nation last year, has been singularly free...
...Learned that a Gallup Poll showed him a winner over Franklin Roosevelt in four key Midwestern States-Michigan (57%), Ohio (54%), Illinois (54%), Indiana (57%)-if the election were held...
...fans sat in embarrassed silence, stretched their voices in relief after the sacred ceremony of music. Philip Knight Wrigley, backer of the League and chief matchmaker in its marriage to music, was solemnly enthusiastic. He has long been eager to try any scheme, however dignified, which might promote his Midwestern softball carnival...
While rival networkers boiled and newspapermen scribbled frantically away for future editions, CBS's Midwestern listen ers got the news first-straight and hot from the Senator's mouth...
...that the whole U.S. was practically walking on eggs. The War Food Administration, which had been frantically storing eggs everywhere but in their desks, was thoroughly alarmed. In May the happy hens set a new production record of 6,704,000,000 eggs. In 1,400 freight cars on Midwestern sidings last week were stacked 25,000,000 dozen eggs, getting more dubious...