Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inch broke, reducing the East's oil supplies even more (see p. 18). At Dupo, Ill., near St. Louis, one of the nation's largest freight yards (8,000 cars move there daily) was under water. Production was halted at a huge caterpillar tractor works in Peoria...
Since March 1928, when Freeman F. Gosden, onetime egg-bearer for Thurston the Magician, became the long-suffering Amos, and Charles J. Correll, onetime Peoria bricklayer, became turgid, blustering Andy, they have had but one vacation -eight weeks in 1934. Now 43 and 52, respectively, they have salted away plenty, earned a rest. Their last reported salary (1938) was $7,500 weekly...
Thus ended a luncheon in Peoria last week that made American church history. For the first time ever, a non-Catholic delegation of religious leaders was officially entertained and received at a national Catholic conference. The occasion was the 20th annual convention of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference (TIME...
...nearer you live to the center of a large city, the more likely you are to go insane. If you live in an urbanized riverside area (like sections of St. Louis, Milwaukee, Omaha, Kansas City and Peoria by Clarence W. Schroeder. His findings (published in the current American Journal of Sociology) confirm the striking insanity pattern for Chicago (see cut) discovered by Robert Faris and H. Warren Dunham (Mental Disorders in Urban Areas...
...Milwaukee "high rates [of insanity] are concentrated in the center of the city, in the rooming-house and Negro district. . . . High rates tend to follow river valleys." In a riverside district of Peoria, Ill., insanity is nine times as frequent as in another district on the bluffs. In Chicago, where the Chicago River turns to form a Y whose stem flows into Lake Michigan, the maximum concentration of insanity exactly coincides with this...