Word: regionality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Squirrel Chowder. If the astronomers had been simply seeking to put the center in a particularly American rural setting, they could hardly have chosen better. The low, hickory-wooded hills around the town were once the home of Winnebago and Pottawatomi Indians. The region's first settler was Thaddeus Morehouse, who opened a tavern to sell venison and whisky (at 25? a gallon...
...Whale or a Hoax? During World War II, the monster became a military secret. It was reportedly seen by many servicemen, but the region around Loch Ness was a Commando training ground, and to quote the soldiers would have betrayed the secret of their station. Both German and Italian airmen claimed to have killed the monster, but this, said the BBC, was quite untrue. Right after the war, the witnesses testified, the monster reappeared undamaged...
...news, Montana's Senator James Murray and Representative Mike Mansfield and Washington's Representative Henry Jackson, who had been pushing the projected Harvey plant because it would bring new industry to their region, quickly changed their minds and demanded a Justice Department investigation...
...three Saturdays each of the 48 television areas throughout the nation will show no college football; these dates will be different for each station 3) On one Saturday, last week, there was no television showing of any college game 4) On each of the remaining seven weks each region will see at least two games from its own region, two from another, two games which will get nation-wide coverage, and one other game to be chosen from any of these categories...
...Every region brags of the fabulous rise of local favorites. Texans have seen obscure Delhi Oil Corp., whose stock sold for $1.10 in 1944, run up to $38. Dewey & Almy Chemical (Cambridge, Mass.), which sold at eleven in 1949, has reached the equivalent of 57½. Chicago's Emhart Manufacturing Co. (flexible plastic bottles) has soared from $50 to $80 in three months. Californians recount the wonders of Signal Oil & Gas Co.'s four-year rise from 85 to the equivalent...