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...centrally located air, rail, and highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site of the U.S.'s biggest trade shows. McCormick Place cost Chicago $35 million to build, and one boast was that it would be "more durable...
Last week McCormick Place lay in a wild ruin of twisted steel, tumbled concrete and smoking ashes. It was the victim of a blaze that, in total money terms, rivaled the fire...
...Westinghouse down to minor manufacturers of shower curtains and shish kebabers, had set up exhibits and were prepared to write orders from buyers converging from all parts of the country. Then, late at night, fire suddenly broke out in a booth in the main exhibition hall. Within 15 minutes, McCormick Place was an inferno; because of the intensity of the fire and its rapid spread in all directions, investigators suspected that defective electrical wiring was the cause. Eight hours later, one watchman was dead and one of the world's great exhibition halls had been utterly devastated. The economic...
...housewares manufacturers them selves lost $25 million in merchandise and displays. Some products were prototypes rushed to Chicago to impress the 60,000 buyers who would have wandered through McCormick Place during the five-day show. There were other irreplaceable losses: the pioneer Webcor wire recorder was part of the ashes, and so were six original 1921-model Dormeyer mixers. Still missing were $25,000 worth of diamonds that were to have been prizes...
Post circulation - now 456,000 - has been climbing steadily since 1954, when it bought Colonel McCormick's Times-Herald and became a morning monopoly. In ad linage, the paper ranks third in the nation, behind only the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. "I don't play girl editor," says Mrs. Graham, who has demonstrated a knack for putting the right person in the right...