Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rockets have yet been used by the Caterpillar Tractor Co. of East Peoria, Ill., which often sounds like the "Earthworm City" of Author Upson's stories (he worked there as a mechanic). But last week "Cat" was ready to bring out something almost as powerful. It was a new model diesel engine, the biggest (12 cylinders), most powerful (500 h.p.), and costliest ($14,000) Cat had ever made...
...tractor that wouldn't bog down in them. He designed one that would move on a track and pick it up and lay it down as it went-the first Caterpillar. As demand for the new-fangled invention spread east, Holt opened a branch plant in East Peoria. That became the main plant after the Holt Manufacturing Co. merged with its biggest competitor in 1925 and became Caterpillar Tractor...
...Texas and to Dallas were also stored away; TIME'S editors and the members of its business departments made their contributions. One of them was a firsthand account of the significant business expansion going on in the Chicago area and a neat symbol thereof: the sign on a Peoria barbershop which read, "Joe's shop is a two-chair shop...
...Face. Despite the laggards, the overall expansion of big & little business was remolding the U.S. industrial face. The greatest growth was in the Midwest, which seemed more & more like the industrial heartland (in Peoria, a barbershop proudly advertised: "Joe's place is a two-chair shop now"). In the Southwest, another empire was abuilding...
...Peoria Journal, quoting a telegram from Dr. Gallup ("This is the kind of a close election that happens once in a generation"), retorted: ". . . The Gallup poll, had it been properly evaluated, should have told us it was going to be such an election." It canceled its contract to run the Gallup poll; so did the Nashville Tennessean, the St. Louis Globe Democrat and others...