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...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...
...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...