Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sara Sommer is a handsome, substantial widow who owns a lush farm near Peoria. When she first heard of Clarence Streit's plan for lumping the world's democracies into a "Union Now," she said: "Oh, gee! Is that patriotic?" But once convinced that Goodman Streit was not advocating treason, she pitched in, contributing both money and quiet organizing work...
...Even C.E.D.'s pet community committees have already showed up some difficulties in the Hoffman approach. Peoria, C.E.D.'s first test city, made a fine case history statistically; its businessmen made concrete plans to employ 30% more people after the war than they did in 1940. But when it came to publicizing their survey, all individual company plans had to be left out: they were trade secrets...
When Cliff Wherley was 14, he saw a movie about Sergeant York. That was in March 1942. He thought it over until 4 a.m., then slipped out of his Elmwood, Ill. home, caught a bus for Peoria, enlisted. Big for his age ("the best hay baler in the country"), Farmboy Wherley looked 18 to the U.S. Army...
...WADDELL Peoria...
...year has passed since George Plummer McNear Jr. lost his fight against the Railroad Brotherhoods, and in doing so lost his Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad to Government operation (TIME...