Word: duluth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There once was a warm-blooded youth Who dwelt in the town of Duluth...
Westward Ho. Thus encouraged, the brothers branched out: to St. Paul (the Pioneer Press and Dispatch), to Duluth (the News-Tribune and Herald), the Dakotas (Aberdeen and Grand Forks) and the West Coast. They own 49% of the prosperous Seattle Times, and for one year ran the San Francisco Chronicle...
Today ruddy-faced, blue-eyed Joseph Ridder, 60, runs the family's Ridder Publications, Inc. from a paneled office in the old World building, on Manhattan's Park Row. Victor, his invalid twin, divides his time between Duluth and New York. Bernard, a retired poet, runs the St. Paul papers, and eight Ridder sons, back from the war, are spotted at strategic points of the empire...
...Among them: Los Angeles, Chicago, Omaha, Tacoma, Duluth, Atlanta, Chattanooga, New Haven. Notably not among them: Boston...
...rumor spread through the Midwest grain bowl that ceiling prices might be pushed higher, farmers took a firmer grip on their supplies instead of hauling them to market. Receipts of grains at Midwest terminals were down to a trickle. Great Lakes steamers, making their first 1946 runs to Duluth, Superior and Port Arthur, found scant cargoes at the cavernous elevators...