Word: joliet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Caterpillar Tractor Co. borrowed $35 million to expand its plants in Joliet and Peoria, Ill., and to build a new plant in York, Pa. which will be used to supply its eastern and Canadian dealers...
...first visit home to Joliet, Ill. last spring, Private Hubert Edward Reeves, a 19-year-old Army veteran of Korea, found huge stacks of letters waiting for him. Ed couldn't get around very well in those days, so he spent most of his time lying on the davenport while his mother read the letters to him. When one began, "Oh, my poor dear boy, how sorry we are that you have to lie there, crippled, not able to move hand or foot . . ." Ed would laugh and say: "Throw that one away...
Private Reeves still has to return to the hospital to be fitted with artificial limbs and undergo more surgery. But before he goes, Ed Reeves and Beverly Jean Hall will be married in the First Baptist Church in Joliet. Beverly knows everything will turn out all right. "I guess some people don't understand," she says serenely, "but I happen to love him. And Ed loves...
Married. Marshall Field Jr., 33, son of multi-millionaire Publisher Marshall Field, assistant publisher and associate editor of his father's Chicago Sun-Times; and Katherine Woodruff, 22, daughter of an Illinois banker; he for the second time, she for the first; in Joliet...