Midwestern United States, every mention

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▶ 7:08 David Rosenthal He had invested in a bunch of real estate in Chicago and the Midwest, and so Elias came also to seek his fortune there.
▶ 7:15 David Rosenthal Now, when Walt is four, Elias moves the family out of Chicago to an idyllic farm town, also in the Midwest, where Robert had just purchased another tract of real estate

▶ 19:59 Ben Gilbert And they consolidated the smaller leagues to create this in the Midwest.
▶ 26:38 David Rosenthal And there were wealthy business people in cities all across America, East Coast, Midwest, the South, Florida, who wanted to add teams and come into the NFL.

▶ 14:15 David Rosenthal But it turns out there actually is an abundant ready supply of animal pancreases that happen to be just sort of lying around in the American heartland and just about every human food production center in the world, and that is cow and pig…

▶ 1:08:50 David Rosenthal They were following the old sort of trade routes of the FedMart playbook of Arizona, Texas, Florida, going out across the South and the Midwest.

▶ 46:23 Ben Thompson And, you know, that wasn't the idea of like, I mean, I sound cliche, but I, you know, raised in a Midwest blue collar town, like I'm getting paid far more than I've ever made any time in my life.

▶ 25:46 Ben Gilbert Among its 20,000 miles of pipeline was a genuine prize, Northern Natural, the major north-south line, feeding gas from Texas into Iowa, Minnesota, and much of the rest of the Midwest.
▶ 3:01:28 Ben Gilbert So it's, you know, the Midwest using coal instead of,

▶ 1:26:34 Howard Marks Yeah, I'll tell that story, and it bears a little bit on what we're talking about here, but in 1990, I went to visit a client in the Midwest who told me that

▶ 1:39:42 Anthony Gonzalez So, you know, again, I come from a, maybe a slightly different perspective because of my father's background, my family's background, building a steel company in Northeast Ohio and seeing what has happened to the industrial base in the…

▶ 12:36 David Rosenthal But the hardest hit part of the country during the depression was the Midwest farming community because of the Dust Bowl.
▶ 41:05 David Rosenthal He starts figuring out who the manufacturers are of some of these goods and for manufacturers that are also located, they're kind of in the South and the Midwest.
▶ 47:10 David Rosenthal But at those numbers, it is the most profitable store in Arkansas and the biggest store by sales, not just in Arkansas, but like the whole Midwest and South region.
▶ 1:40:00 Ben Gilbert They grew the number of discounting stores pretty dramatically up through their 1970 IPO, and people still weren't really paying attention, because they were this company in the southern Midwest, they seemed regional, but let's just take…
▶ 1:49:53 David Rosenthal So this is how as Walmart starts to expand out from the South and from the Midwest across the country, and Kmart is just going off city by city, extending their supply lines.
▶ 2:53:02 Ben Gilbert Most of the lower Midwest and much of the South is Walmart, and then there's the other ones that float around that's like, what's the number one profession in every state?

▶ 38:14 David Rosenthal And the idea is that, you know, so we think Chicago is the Midwest, like it was the West then like, you know, the frontier, uh, but it was the biggest city in the frontier.

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