Word: mid-west
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...very well that Easterners should boost the East and the native sons of California shout their claim to fame in every ear, but when the Mid-West gets together and plans to yell for their section, the East seems to become offended. Eastern papers are said to be a sophisticated lot, but when one of them comes forth with a story filled with bunk and hokum about the so-called "comparatively unimportant college grid contest," then the boosters of the Mid-West cry "On to Harvard" with the largest possible exclamation point added for both Purdue and Indiana...
...there are 45,417 motor trucks in the transportation business, serving 611,921 miles of roads. The trackage of all the U. S. railroads (250,000 miles) is only one-fourth of all this. And yet the motor mileage does not include the 1,590-mile service that the Mid-West Motors Corp. expects to open next month between Dallas and Los Angeles, the longest continuous bus route operated by one company...
...British Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges, maintained complete silence last week at his retreat, Chilswell, Boar's Hill, Oxford. An irrepressible Mid-West headline writer once placed above a story concerned with Laureate Bridges-then in this country-the single devastating row of caps...
Later, Peorians pressed their inquiries.. Mid-West newspapers took...
...York Times explained, regretted. Mr. Wheeler made no statement. But Peorians, their suspicion aroused, were not satisfied until next day, when reporters of Mid-West, papers vouched that they had seen the one-eyed one resting in his home, at Westerville, Ohio...