Word: peoria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nation of Lovers." His crowds were big and enthusiastic. He drew 200,000 in Des Moines, where Democratic Governor Harold Hughes told him: "This is the greatest reception in the history of Iowa." He attracted 70,000 in Peoria, Ill., and Democratic Senator Paul Douglas said that Lyndon's were "the largest crowds I've ever seen in central Illinois." Some 250,000 jammed downtown Louisville for his motorcade, 85,000 shouldered their way into Nashville's War Memorial Square, 40,000 assembled in Indianapolis...
...Peoria, Johnson said: "Yes, all day I have seen your smiling faces. All day I have looked into your happy countenances. All day I have seen the family life, the mothers and the children of America here in the heartland of the great State of Illinois, and those voices sound powerful to me. They sound clear. They sound free. And when I return to the White House, and the policemen turn the keys on those locks on those big black gates, and I get to those few acres that are back of our house, it is going to be folks...
...more vulnerable to competitive setbacks than their big brothers. Like many other small firms, Northwestern Steel and Wire of Sterling, III., is feeling a profit pinch because scrap prices have jumped sharply in the past few months. A surge of imports of barbed wire and nails has hurt Peoria's Keystone Steel, which specializes in those products. Some small steelmen complain that they have difficulty borrowing to expand and modernize, since bankers tend to favor the larger firms. But the small ones often manage to be more daring than the conservative giants, sometimes lead in technical innovation. The first...
...beginning, Eberhard has doubled sales and tripled profits since he became president in 1954, recently launched a $41 million research drive. One result: Caterpillar's next innovation will be a gas turbine tractor engine. Preparing for the future, Caterpillar this year will begin building a new headquarters in Peoria, its home town since its founding...
...Some day our own brains might be used as "cheap computers"-very possibly without our acquiescence. Instead of eternal rest, part of us may end up programming how many boxes of the new detergent should be shipped to the Peoria warehouse in the first quarter. Best recommendation for cremation I ever heard...