Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only Americans in Vladivostok are the experts maintained by the Caterpillar Tractor company of Peoria...
Fortnight ago the U. S. towboat General Ashburn paddled proudly up the Illinois River on a three-day trip from St. Louis. When it reached Peoria it pushed the big steel barge it had brought up to the city's new $400.000 wharf and warehouse. Whistles tooted, bands played, citizens cheered to celebrate the opening of one more link in the Government's vast mid-continent waterway system...
Smartly erect on the Peoria dock stood Secretary of War Hurley to welcome this first cargo to the Illinois cornlands. Aboard the General Ashburn, Major General Thomas Quinn Ashburn, chairman of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government's barge line, saluted his superior. Behind the General Ashburn puffed the towboat Wynoka, with another steel barge and three empty lighters. The first freight?400 tons or about 16 carloads of sisal, sugar, coffee, soap, canned goods, shipped from St. Louis at a total saving of $1,100 under the rail freight rate??was unloaded and General Ashburn insisted: ''The waterways bring...
General Ashburn's waterway party at Peoria, nevertheless, stood for one of four major reasons why the railroads of the land, after a month of agitation, formally petitioned the Interstate Commerce Commission last week for a 15% freight rate increase. The three other reasons are: Depression, motor trucks, pipelines. At their Manhattan meeting fortnight ago (TIME, June 22) the carrier executives named three of their colleagues to approach the I. C. C. Representing the Eastern roads was big, breezy John Jeremiah Pelley, who rose from Illinois school-teaching to head New York, New Haven & Hartford. Henry Alexander Scandrett, whose long...
Because college presidents are public figures, not likely to be permitted obscurity, rumors flew to the effect that he would be nominated to, and accept, the Republican candidacy for Governor of New Jersey in the Spring. Therefore his past was scanned for its high spots. They are: born at Peoria, Ill., April 19, 1861; educated at Princeton and Berlin; served as Presbyterian minister at Chambersburg, Pa. (1887-91), then as instructor of logic, and later of psychology, at Princeton; author of several philosophical works...