Word: midwesterner
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...shippers have packed up and left the troubled port. Last fall, United Fruit shifted its banana loading to Albany, 124 miles up the Hudson River. Company officials expect that distribution costs will be lower out of Albany, even though the new location adds eleven hours of travel time. Some Midwestern shippers are abandoning U.S. docks entirely in favor of ports at Saint John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Canadian laws permit railroads and shipping companies to offer combined freight rates at substantial discounts; such discounts are prohibited in the U.S. Even such distinctively U.S. products as Playboy magazine, Kodak...
...next week's voting for California's 271 delegates are huge. The winner in the head-to-head showdown between Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern will be a heavy favorite to grab the nomination in Miami Beach. As the duel between the two longtime friends from neighboring Midwestern states turns personal, the man with all the momentum is McGovern...
...United Artists filmed the movie Cold Turkey (about a Midwestern town that gave up smoking) in Greenfield, Iowa. As a publicity stunt, one-third of the smokers of Greenfield actually gave up cigarettes for 30 days. Their reward: $6,000 from...
...cynicism grew tempered as he grew older. He seemed to yearn for the quiet Midwestern life he had rejected, to want to roll back the years to a more peaceful age--"Wouldn't it be nice not to be famous?" one of his later songs asks, and you hear the voice of the composer behind the question. But the same man who wrote "I'm in love again, and I love, love, love it" also wrote...
...than you'd care to think about). Gill gives us the old, familiar story: the debonair roue, writing At Long Last Love between swoons into unconsciousness while lying pinned under his horse with both legs broken, tiring the second half of his life in agony after the accident. The midwestern kid who made good; the character like Auntie Mame or his own Katie who came east and set the town on its ear, the country on its ear, the world on its ear. But the shocking debauche would do facile little runs around his own end, drop back, and make...