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Last week, with money borrowed from Pittsburgh's Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. and others, he made his biggest buy of all: 60% of the plant assets of Peoria's R. G. LeTourneau Inc. for $26 to $30 million (depending on the value of inventories). What Boshell got was that part of the company which is engaged in making its famed earth-moving equipment...
...cannery at Washington, Ill. One morning, just after roll call, Reinhold ducked under the wire, sauntered to the shelter of some trees, changed into his escape costume, and walked down the highway in full view of the encampment. Nobody paid him any attention. He thumbed a ride to Peoria with a farmer, who did not appear to notice Reinhold's German accent...
...Once, in Peoria,. Kinsey was interviewing a 350-lb. Negro prostitute. "Suh," she told him, "you makes me 'member things I never even knew happened...
...Peoria, the Eisenhower train was joined by Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, a man whom Ike does not admire, but whom he recognizes as the symbol of a deep sense of uneasiness among U.S. voters. As the train rolled across Wisconsin, McCarthy was much in evidence. At Green Bay, he bobbed onto the train platform to receive the cheers of the crowd, which here, as at some other Wisconsin stops, gave the Senator more applause than it gave Eisenhower himself. As Ike began to speak, McCarthy, who knew what was coming from a talk with Ike the previous evening...
...Illinois, after a stop-off in Springfield, where he expressed thanks to Governor Stevenson for giving state employees time off to hear him, Ike moved on to Peoria to make one of his most effective campaign speeches. "The Administration answer to every question raised in this campaign," said he, ". . . is 'you never had it so good . . .' Tonight I want to ask you another question. Why shouldn't we have it better?" A Republican administration, he went on, would make things better by 1) fighting inflation, 2) reducing Government expenditures (and eventually taxes) and 3) encouraging new industrial...