Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rejuvenate the Monon, the trustees last year brought in a new president, John W. Barriger III. Barriger, a stocky, cheerful hustler, had been an assistant yardmaster for the Pennsylvania, railroad analyst for Kuhn, Loeb & Co., adviser to RFC, and operator for about a year of the strikebound Toledo, Peoria & Western (TIME, May 18, 1942). He had some young ideas for Monon, and he put them into effect as he traveled over the Monon in his business car (purchased secondhand from the Southern Pacific in 1887). As a result, when the Monon celebrates its 100th anniversary this week, it will...
...electrical attachments." Alaska still views the old-fashioned brothel with sympathetic tolerance. Fairbanks authorities have sternly resisted attempts to close down blonde Big Babe, and the rest of the girls who keep open house along the "line." Alaskan liquor stores sell a clear, malevolent fluid called Spirits of Peoria, a 190-proof potion calculated to make the mildest man click his heels and bay like a malemute...
When George Plummer McNear Jr. was murdered three months ago, Peoria wondered if the strife over his strikebound Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad had died with him. This week it looked...
...road was in full operation again for the first time in 18 months. Peoria gave credit chiefly to T. P. & W.'s handsome new president, Russel Coulter, 48, the antithesis of ruggedly individualistic, anti-union Mr. McNear. Coulter was affable, friendly and a born joiner; he is a member of more than a score of clubs...
Even before Coulter had been officially put on the payroll a month ago, he began patching up things in Peoria. First he put the company back in the local Association of Commerce. Next he walked down to the East Peoria yards and talked to the craft chairmen of the railroad brotherhoods. They had ended their six-year strike only a few days before. Under Coulter, they set to with a will to get the road operating. Engineers and firemen set ties and laid rails at trackmen's wages (80? an hour) until three flood-razed bridges were repaired...