Word: dairyland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life was simple and uncomplicated in the dairyland village of Bonduel, Wis., and the oldtimers wanted to keep it that way. They saved their money, got along without movies, debated the state of the world at daily card games in the town's nine taverns. At every spring election since 1936 about 90 of the town's 700 citizens turned out to vote, and re-elected big, square-set John Froelich the village president...
...three times governor) is a lieutenant colonel on General Douglas MacArthur's staff. Brother Bob, whose Senate seat is good until 1947, discovered too late that the Progressives had not been sleeping but dying. Bob rushed back to Wisconsin, made two radio speeches, then bounced up & down the dairyland, spending a day each at 20 county seats. Never had he seen such apathy, he told friends. If the apathy continued, Young Bob might find himself again in the Republican Party, where Old Bob started from 20 years...
Willkie began poorly in Richland Center, deep in dairyland. Farmers gave up their Saturday night shopping to jam 2,400 strong into a red-brick high school. They sat apathetic through a long farm speech, delivered without fire. Then Willkie pushed on, to Neenah, Oshkosh, Fond du Lac. His party, including 25 correspondents, rolled along snow-covered countryside in seven shiny rented 1942 Dodges. Veteran Scripps-Howard Newsman Tom Stokes was reminded of a "glamorous Broadway star going back to the five-a-day ... or a major-league pitcher back to the minors. ... All the trappings of the big time...
Albert Lea, Minn, is a clean, wide-avenued lakeside city* of 12,000, a hundred miles south of Minneapolis, smack in the middle of the rich northern dairyland. It won the honor of being Freeborn County's seat about 80 years ago in a horse race. But Albert Lea is about to become something of a household word. Reason: it has made such an excellent and meticulous study of its postwar prospects that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, in a 55-page pamphlet, is holding up Albert Lea as a good example...
...observer said the town under a all of fire double, very quickly became a spectacle "like a grotesque dairyland...