Word: looping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep in the shadows of the Loop, Chicagoans took a startled look last fortnight at a 16-ton crime bus, the like of which had never been seen by cop or criminal. This mobile fort, laboratory, hospital and riot car combined was designed for the Illinois State Police by Thomas Peter Sullivan, director of Public Safety, and Leonarde Keeler, developer of the lie detector...
...city room of the Chicago Tribune was tense. In the smoke-coated old Federal Building a mile away in the Loop a Tribune man waited for the flash. Then it came. U.S. District Attorney J. Albert Woll handed reporters a statement by Special Prosecutor William D. Mitchell...
Battle Indices. In July's last week the Germans counted 482 Russian tanks destroyed in the Kalach sector, index of the Don loop battle's fierceness. In the month's last ten days they counted 815 Soviet aircraft destroyed...
Solid Senders in Chicago. When traffic lights in Chicago's Loop flash red Saturday night, cars often line up for a solid block. At the Sherman Hotel, customers stand eight deep at the long Celtic Bar; downstairs in the Panther Room, where a normal New Year's crowd is 1,100, nearly 2,500 swing-loving youngsters cramp in to hear the solid-sending of Glenn Miller's band...
...hourlong, 37-page speech the Prime Minister put on record the Government's demand for the power to enforce overseas conscription-and the Government's pledge not to enforce it unless necessary. The Conservative Opposition, which wants immediate conscription, snorted that the "Government has now looped the loop three times." but sided with Mackenzie King's Liberals. Forty-five Quebec Liberals bolted their Party, voted against the measure. They picked up two Quebec independents, one rebellious Ontario Liberal and six members of the schoolmarmishly socialistic Cooperative Commonwealth Federation...