Word: midwesternisms
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Kill the Pigs. The talk ran cross-country; at the Governors' Conference in Columbus, up rose New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to warn his Midwestern colleagues that unless more grain flowed from the Midwest to the East, milk rationing would be a fact by October...
...East's oil shortage suddenly grew desperate. Weather and war were the prime causes. Midwestern floods (see p. 20) washed out rails, covered highways, broke the Big Inch pipeline near Little Rock, Ark., cutting off a flow of some 200,000 bbl. per day. Meantime black-market sales were draining away thousands of barrels a day for illegal use. Passenger motoring was on the rise. Farmers were rushing to finish weather-delayed spring planting; tractors began to run dry from Maine to Virginia...
...other day one of TIME'S top editors was telling me in some embarrassment about a dinner at which he had been the speaker in a big Midwestern city...
...last summer the East Coast oil shortage changed everything, including Senator Bridges' mind. As a cheaper barge canal, the project squeaked through Congress with the aid of votes from Eastern Republicans with about-to-be-cold constituents and Midwestern Democrats with about-to-be-curtailed oil and gas production...
...immediate result: Morgan, Stanley sulked on the sidelines; Midwestern underwriters Halsey, Stuart & Co. and Otis & Co. (both had violently protested the original Morgan, Stanley deal) snapped up the $10,000,000 issue with...