Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stateville prison in Joliet, Ill., the warden said that Inmate Nathan Leopold, now a bald 48, who teamed with Richard Loeb in the brutal 1924 "thrill murder" of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, has been a "very good" prisoner. He works as an X-ray technician in the prison hospital. Through the prison school and correspondence courses, he has learned "about 25 languages." Next New Year's Day he will be eligible for parole. His plans? Said the warden: "I don't think he knows himself what he'd do if he ever gets...
...uranium (now principally the Belgian Congo and Canada) by imports from Australia and South Africa. ¶ Domestically, the AEC has developed uranium mines on the Colorado Plateau (where it is building 783 miles of new roads), has found good prospects in the Black Hills of South Dakota. ¶ In Joliet, Ill., the Blockson Chemical Co. will soon begin full-scale production of uranium from a new source, phosphoric acid. ¶ Barely started on its new $3.5 billion expansion program, the AEC already employs about 3% of the total construction force of the nation...
Reveille. In Joliet, Ill., William A. Hall, 22, dozed while his car swerved into a power pole and plunged 100 ft. to the bottom of a quarry, where he stepped out unhurt but wide awake...
...Near Joliet, Ill. one afternoon last week, a group of oilmen and Chicago city officials assembled around a 30-in. pipe. While the state flags of Texas and Illinois fluttered in the breeze, the wheel of a big control valve was turned. There was a rearing whoosh, and gas from Texas began to flow to Chicago through a new 1,417-mile pipeline...
...Oates's newest pipeline will boost the Chicago area's natural-gas supply by 374 million cubic feet daily, an increase of 73%. Gates is working on still another method of satisfying his customers. His company has leased 12,000 acres of land outside Joliet, under which is a domelike geological formation. In the next few years, Gates plans to start pumping surplus gas into the ground there each summer, store it for use in the peak winter season. Developing this vast storage space (90 billion cubic feet) will cost $50 million, but spending that kind of money...