Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Plummer McNear Jr. does not believe in obeying a law that he hates. His 239-mile Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad was returned to him last October, after 42 months of Government operation under seizure. Immediately his union rail employes struck. The line has been strike-bound ever since. George McNear refused to negotiate". He said he would see the railroad and himself go broke first...
...night last week, Irwin ("Pants") Paschon, the line's striking head timekeeper, got a telephone call at his Peoria home. An anonymous voice said: "You're going to get what the picket shanty got." Next day Pants Paschon and a score of fellow pickets watched a strange-looking train pull out of the T.P. & W.'s East Peoria yards. Ahead of the locomotive was an armored gondola. Behind the engine were three freight cars and a steel caboose. The train carried six crewmen, 14 guards and some guns...
Comeback by McNear. A federal judge decided that hefty, hustling George Plummer McNear Jr., president of the Toledo, Peoria & Western R.R., was entitled to get his railroad back after three years of Government operation. Because he refused to grant the railroad brotherhoods a wage raise unless they gave up "featherbedding" (making jobs for themselves), T.P.& W. had a three months' strike...
...nobody really thought Peoria would become Illinois' holy city if Laundryman Triebel beat the Democratic nominee, Tom Madden. One of Triebel's backers on The Bluff, the town's fashionable residential section, made it plain that even reform is liberal in Peoria. Said he: "We've got to have control, here. Gambling will be supervised and the prostitutes will have to be licensed...
...Peorias in the Pacific. To keep its fleets operating across 3,000 miles of ocean in one direction, 7,000 miles in another, the civilian Navy has set up 900 shore establishments, including 300 advance bases, some as large as Peoria, Ill. Problems of logistics are vast. Equipment for the base at Kwajalein was ordered 17 months before the island was actually taken from the Japs. By the time the Kwajalein units were under way, preparations had begun for bases in the Marianas...