Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gary, Ind., General Railway Signal Co. installed the nation's first fully automated freight-car yard for the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railway. By using radar and electronic brain circuits, the system sorts out and assembles freight cars by destination, automatically weighs them and controls their speed as they roll down an incline to assembly points, where they are coupled into trains. General Railway Signal is now installing similar systems in six other yards...
...industries as oil, chemicals, and atomic energy, where materials are dangerous for men to handle but easily adaptable to machines, have necessarily become almost completely automatic. Some are even using TV to keep an eye on remote-control processes. The Army is building a completely automatic TNT factory in Joliet, 111., while work on an atomic engine for the AEC includes such contraptions as General Electric's "O-Man," a 15-ton remote-controlled claw to handle radioactive material. (It can screw a nut on a bolt, and can even be made to pick up an egg.) Oil refineries...
...devout Methodist father had expressly forbidden him to read the book, but 13-year-old William Ernest Hocking of Joliet, Ill. could not resist the temptation. A usually obedient boy, he sneaked Herbert Spencer's First Principles out to the haymow, read with horrified fascination the book's conclusion that whatever Supreme Power might lie behind the universe, it "is utterly inscrutable." When he had finished, young Hocking realized that "father was right: the damage was done. I had started out life with a perfectly sound brand of orthodox religion. Now, I had lost...
Thrill-Killer Nathan Leopold, 48, serving a life term in Joliet, Ill. prison for teaming with Richard Loeb (knifed to death by a fellow inmate in 1936) in the 1924 Chicago murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, learned that the parole board had turned down his bid for freedom after 28 years in stir because he "is not the right type of man to go back to society." Told not to apply for parole again until 1965, Leopold, a Phi Beta Kappa who has studied 26 languages in prison, said he was "somewhat disappointed," but could "only accept...
...Joliet, Ill.. prison, where he was sen tenced to life in 1924 for his part in the wanton slaying of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, 48-year-old Nathan Leopold felt that he had paid his debt to society and asked for parole. Said he: "I have changed completely. My personality, even my physical being has changed. No cell that was in my body at the time of the crime is there today. I have learned my lesson.&" The parole board is expected to announce its decision sometime this month...