Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Eugene R. Grasselli Jr., scion of the Cleveland industrial chemists; and a Mrs. Louise Hammond Blatt of Joliet, Ill.; in Manhattan...
...hands could untangle the wire with which the bombers had sealed the door, Farmer Lentz's barn, three horses and 43 cows were a blazing pyre in the night. Two weeks before, the barns of two other dairymen, independents like Farmer Lentz, had been bombed near Joliet...
...Once it was widely thought that he had bought a big interest in Diamond Match Co., biggest in the U. S., but this rumor was groundless. Last week, however, Herr Kreuger got his company. It was Federal Match Corp., owner of modern factories at Bloomsburg and Bellefonte, Pa., Duluth, Joliet and Spokane. Federal has issued no statements since 1929, at which time it showed $3,248,000 in assets, no earnings. Vulcan Match plans to put $4,000,000 new capital into Federal, indicating expansion...
...making it impossible by topping the fence with barbed wire. On the field, his number-23 -is blazoned on a jersey that has usually escaped out of his trousers. On the campus, he appears in yellow corduroys, a virile sweater. Twenty years old, one-time star athlete of the Joliet (111.) High School, he belongs to Sigma Nu, studies in the School of Education, plans to make dentistry his hobby, because he enjoys pulling teeth. In important games, Rentner loses his elaborate carelessness, tries furiously to justify the pseudonym he likes best: "Flying Dutchman.'' Last year...
...Roads whose quarterly reports indicate that they will not make their fixed charges for 1931: Bessemer & Lake Erie; Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh; Chicago & Eastern Illinois; Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville; Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha; Colorado & Southern; Elgin, Joliet & Eastern; Illinois Central; Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie; Mobile & Ohio; Pere Marquette; St. Louis Southwestern; Southern; Wabash; Western Pacific...