Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JACK KAREY WCFL Chicago...
...CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: The Senate's action was dangerous . . . disgusting...
...CHICAGO TRIBUNE: Upon the two Republicans who deserted their party will be visited the deserved condemnation of their countrymen. If their votes had gone the other way, the Admiral would have won confirmation...
...into the sewage-disposal business with a radical new process, developed by Sterling Engineer Frederick J. Zimmermann, which is cheaper and more efficient than current methods. With one pilot plant already set up in Norway, Sterling has contracts to build an $11.9 million disposal plant for the city of Chicago, a second $280,000 plant for Wheeling, W. Va. And it has hopes for many more: surveys show that nearly half the community sewer systems in the U.S. need expanding, repair or complete replacement, to say nothing of the growing problem of industrial waste disposal...
Sterling's Chicago plant is designed to handle 200 tons of waste solids daily, nearly 25% of the city's total; it does away with the usual complex of chemical-treatment plants, settling basins and incinerators. Instead, it operates like a nameless power plant: oxidizing agents cause fireless combustion of organic waste right in the sewage water. The combustion not only purifies the water, but also produces steam to operate the plant with enough left over, in some cases, to sell as commercial power. The only residue is an inoffensive and inert ash heavy enough...