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Douglas v. Rip van Winkle. In Room 915 of Peoria's Pere Marquette Hotel, Paul Douglas arose at 8 a.m. after eight hours' sleep. He did some paper work, looked over a speech, then drove out to deliver it to the Illinois State Federation of Labor at the Peoria armory. As he has for nearly two years, he bore down heavily on the Illinois economic situation...
FIRST LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN has been ordered by the Rock Island Lines for its 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run. The four-car train, to be made by ACF Industries, builders of Spain's aluminum "Talgo" (TIME, April 18, 1949), will be about one-half the weight per passenger of current trains, could carry 300 passengers up to 110 m.p.h. It is scheduled to be in service by Christmas...
...spring are going the rebels' way. On the heels of an insurgent victory in the New Haven battle, Chicago Lawyer Ben W. Heineman unseated (307,859 votes to 219,373) the management of the 1,397-mile Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, whose main line runs from Minneapolis to Peoria, 111. Heineman, who built his campaign around the lavish expense accounts (up to $100,000 in one year) of Board Chairman Lucian C. Sprague, plans to trim expenses, raise dividends...
...Corp. (TIME, April 27, 1953). Whether first or not, Rogers and his sales-minded son Robert, 32, in less than a year have converted a failing brewery (inherited by Allan's wife) into a company turning out 44,600 cases of pop a day from plants in Compton, Peoria, Ill. and Sheridan, Wyo. To meet the demand, the Rogerses are still expanding, with franchised plants planned for Hutchinson, Kans., Florida (near Tampa), Minneapolis, Dallas and Philadelphia, and two new flavors, cola and lemon-lime, coming out this summer...
Sere-Faced Farmers. Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland has no rural roots of his own (although his mother was raised in Peoria), but always knew he wanted to write an "American" opera. A dozen years ago, he read Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a prose poem about the hardscrabble South by James Agee, with photographs by Walker Evans. Copland found it inspiring, afterward showed it to his librettist, Poet Horace Everett,* who was struck by the photographs of serefaced farmers and their families. Everett transferred the setting from the South to Kansas and finished the libretto two years...