Word: midwesternisms
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...beginnings of debate over "freedom of the air," the realization that all the world's air is navigable, brought the Midwest a discovery of great local import: its inland cities are, geographically, the logical U.S. "ports" for the world's sky traffic. This month three great Midwestern cities were hard at work on plans for these world ports of the future...
Europe by-pass New York for Midwestern airports-such as the Ferry Command's field just outside Detroit. Captain Wilson's words, and his presence at the Book-Cadillac Hotel, were part of a concerted campaign by Detroit aviation men to dramatize the city's postwar aviation possibilities...
...Louis is most air-minded of all Midwestern cities. With a local election in the offing, candidates are hedgehopping over each other to promote St. Louis as the "No. i air capital of the nation." Last week Mayor William Dee Becker announced that famed Lambert Field is being expanded to twice its present size, that a second huge air terminal is now on the drawing boards. St. Louis' aviation boom was touched off late last year when the U.S. economic mission to Brazil (TIME, Dec. 7) recommended it as the terminal for a straight-line air route from...
Davis returned from Oxford with the habit of wearing his handkerchief in his sleeve. Otherwise he was unchanged: he retained his Indiana twang, a dignity Midwestern rather than British. He taught high school for a year in Indiana, went to Manhattan and a $10-a-week job with Adventure magazine, doubled his salary by moving to the New York Times...
During World War I. Mrs. Giard, then just out of college, served as personnel manager in a midwestern factory and won some sort of fame because if had the lowest turnover rate of any war industry in the area...