Word: midwesternisms
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...Midwestern motorists (see cut) had their A-card rations squeezed from four gallons to three this week, but no quick relief came to Eastern motorists. Instead, OPA General Manager Chester Bowles told Easterners they'd have to be good for another two weeks, until reserves are built up. Then there might be two more quarts a week for their gas tanks...
...students work outside school hours-apart from those in street trades and domestic jobs. Half of 10,213 Seattle high-school students are working part time. Over 60% of the upper graders in a Pennsylvania school had jobs, as did 92% of the seniors in a Midwestern boys' technical school. In 1940 there were about 1,000,000 14-17-year-olds at work; now there are about...
...years Chicago's State Street Council has been among the world's proudest trade associations. Its members are the great midwestern merchants (Marshall Field, Carson Pirie Scott, The Fair, etc.) that line the upper part of Chicago's No. 1 shopping thoroughfare. But south of Van Buren Street, lower boundary of the "L" loop, there is an equally famous part of State Street: a scabrous collection of saloons, shooting galleries, hock shops, flea markets, peep shows, "red hot" burlesques and flophouses ("clean quiet comfort for 30?"), smack in the middle of Chicago's notorious First Ward...
Chester Davis quickly requisitioned for the refineries, at the ceiling price, the corn now stored in 96 Midwestern elevators (estimated stock: 12 million bushels). But even this drastic maneuver would not tide the plants over more than two or three weeks...
...Dewey, talking to newsmen, stuck to his declaration of last November that he would not be a candidate. And he risked alienating corn-country support when he urged Midwestern farmers to reduce their pig population so that they could send feed to the East, thus avert an Eastern milk famine. At this point, many a newsman decided that Tom Dewey really was not seeking the nomination. Others thought he merely reflected the belief of most patriotic citizens that a quick solution of wartime problems is more important than political ambition...