Word: midwesterners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following number of scholarships are awarded in each region of the country: five scholarships in the far western area; five for the mid-Atlantic region; fifteen for the midwestern area; five for the mountain states; five for New England; five for the Pacific area; ten for the south; and five for the southwestern area...
...Howdy Doody,* a drawling, cow-country character who cavorts through a half-hour show with M.C. Bob Smith. In Chicago, Burr Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran and Ollie is not only the best children's show but has been called the best show of any kind on Midwestern TV. Puppets Kukla and Ollie are, respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human to appear regularly on the show. Even the patrons of Chicago's bars have come to like Kukla's witty, natural dialogue and such...
McKenzie W. Buck has finished experiments with 91 midwestern children between the ages of five and eight and found that the "R" sound was the last to become a normal part of their speech...
...ponderous, prolix debater, with an edgy temper and a taste for snappy double-breasted suits, Scott Lucas likes to describe himself as just another Midwestern farm boy. He is also a smalltown lawyer (in Havana, Ill.; pop. 3,999), an ex-professional baseball player (in the Three-Eye League), a onetime national judge advocate of the American Legion...
...twofold: television sales had fallen off; the tube bottleneck had been broken, and manufacturers could now turn out more sets as well as pass on some of the savings of mass production. Some 70 new stations are scheduled to go on the air this year, and eastern and midwestern networks are to be linked this month, so the industry's prospects are by no means gloomy. But could the 2,000,000 sets which manufacturers hope to turn out in 1949 be sold at current high prices? Admiral's Siragusa said no: "The honeymoon is over...