Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea born in Chicago, cradle of the slot machine, is a whopping success in Illinois. Listeners play it with Mu$1co cards, distributed each week by Kroger and National Tea Co. groceries in Chicago, Peoria and Rockford. Made up like Bingo cards, they have five rows of five spaces each, with tune titles instead of numbers. As the studio orchestra plays its string of some 20 tune choruses, listeners are supposed to identify and check off the titles on their cards. First one to fill a line across rushes to the telephone, dials a special number, shouts: "Musico!" Any single...
...circulation has been inflated by $12 clocks given with ($4) subscriptions, believe it will eventually drop back to about 300,000 daily and 500,000 Sunday. (Present Sunday circulation is 1,000,000, but nearly half of that is "jackrabbit," a predated edition circulated from Maine to California-Peoria, Ill. accounts for 5,000 copies-and distributed by newsdealers who make huge profits selling Annenberg racing sheets...
...politically-uninfected faculty members awarded to Tom Dewey, for "enrichment of American life and welfare" by his racket-bustings, the Cardinal Newman Award for 1938. This honor, from a Roman Catholic lay foundation started 15 years ago by Father John A. O'Brien, son of a rich Peoria landowner, was awarded to Thomas Mann (1937), Alexis Carrel (1936), Robert Andrews Millikan (1934), George Norris (1933). It was also awarded to less permanent giants on the national scene: Gerald Nye (1935), Frank Billings Kellogg...
...four laboratories to study new outlets for U. S. crops. Last week, after weeding through more than 200 applications and bruising susceptible Congressional feelings, Secretary Wallace located the laboratories, one in each major U. S. crop region: Northern (corn, wheat, agricultural wastes) at Peoria, Ill.; Southern (cotton, sweet potatoes, peanuts) at New Orleans; Eastern (tobacco, milk products, apples, potatoes, vegetables) near Philadelphia; Western (wheat, potatoes, alfalfa, vegetables, fruits) near San Francisco...
Conrad T. Budny '40, of Gilman, Wisconsin; William N. Chambers '39, of St. Louis; William N. Chandler '41, of Portland, Oregon; George W. Chessman '41, of Peoria, Illinois; Gardner Clark '39, of Cleveland, Ohio; Ray S. Cline '39, of Terre Haute, Indiana; John E. Crane '40, of Richmond, Indiana; Daniel R. Crusius '40, of Elmhurst, Ilinois; Hamilton Daughaday Jr. '40, of Winnetka, Illinois; Edward M. Davis Jr. '40, of Winter Park, Florida; Joseph T. Doyle '39, of Providence; Charles D. Duffy Jr. '39, of South Jacksonville, Florida; Richard D. Edwards '41, of Pittsburgh; Warick E. Elrod Jr. '39, of Atlanta...