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From the time it was first founded, the U.S. has been the world's foremost innovator. Eli Whitney's cotton gin turned the South into a profitable agricultural kingdom that could rival the industrial North. Cyrus H. McCormick's reaper enabled farmers to transform the Great Plains into vast seas of grain and feed a growing nation. Canals and railroads made long-distance travel possible, while the telegraph and, later, the telephone made it unnecessary. Mass production-another 19th century American invention-turned out a plethora of consumer goods, from automobiles and radios to fiberglass boats...
...Ellen McCormick received a lot of attention in the media this year with her right-to-life campaign, but there's a guy in the Square who has been on the case for years. He works in the subway station and Out-of-Town-News, pacing back and forth with his "Abortion is Murder" sandwich board sign. The best times to catch him are lunch and rush hours--apparently he's called in a time-management group to figure out the times he's likely to get the best exposure from his message...
Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp ran a poor ninth in the Democrat primary last night, finishing behind anti-abortion candidate Ellen McCormick...
...Only last September the paper finally abandoned the last remnants of its idiosyncratic "Tribune spelling," decreed 42 years ago by Publisher Robert ("Bertie") McCormick. Now thoro, burocracy, thru and dozens of other words are spelled the right...
...some 40,000 workers in Chicago went out on strike for an eight-hour day, and their ranks almost doubled in four days. On May 4, at a meeting in Haymarket Square to protest a shooting by the police near the McCormick reaper works, a bomb was hurled at the police. A sergeant was killed and about 60 other policemen injured. Eight anarchists were tried in what became the most celebrated case in American labor history. Four were hanged, one committed suicide, and seven years later the remaining three were pardoned by Governor John P. Altgeld, an action that ended...