Word: looping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...libel. If Capone claims the reward from Colliers', Mr. Morgan, by putting the government on one of its fashionable lists will see that Capone is set free. Capone would no doubt like to round off the Century of Progress with a riotous New Year's eve on the Loop. But for the present, while the injured Kingfish and the tottering financier are still in the public eye, the pretender to the medal is in jail, and the modal itself is locked for good in the Museum of the American Numismatic Society...
...expect him to make them. It is practically taken for granted that he will stand a few customs or even departments on their heads. But the point is that he has not by any means been picked by a few zealous reformers to teach Harvard a blue eagle-like loop-the-loop, but has been selected, as it were, almost by Lowell himself to keep alive Harvard's cherished "tradition of change." With such a tradition firmly entrenched, it is inconceivable that any sensational reform should take place, or one which would not have been made by the old administration...
...bottle of liquid air on the gondola, christened it Century of Progress. Colors were piped. Bands blared "Anchors Aweigh." Commander Settle climbed into the gondola, waved, sealed himself in, and was off into the moonlit sky. Searchlights fingered the balloon as it floated up and westward over the Loop. After ten minutes it ceased to rise. Then it began to fall. Down, down it came, skimming the sheds in the Burlington & Quincy Railroad yards at 14th & Canal Streets. Plunk!-it landed on the tracks, barely missing the head of a yardman and scaring him out of his wits...
...tunnels, which most Chicagoans live and die without ever seeing, have little likeness to the passenger subways of other cities. They lie not just beneath the street but 40 feet below the surface. Driven through clay (bed rock is several hundred feet below the surface in Chicago's Loop) and walled with concrete a foot thick, they are but six feet wide and seven and a half feet high. There are 62 miles of such tunnels, under nearly every street of downtown Chicago. Through them engineers guide small electric locomotives (running on a 2-ft. gauge track and powered...
...Illinois Maintenance Co. (an ex-Insull concern). Other cities have central steam systems. Largest is in Manhattan, served by New York Steam Co. which last year sold eleven billion pounds of steam. Problem for a new steam company in Chicago is to sell steam to the 90% of Loop buildings which now have individual heating plants...