Word: peoria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after the 1948 election, Editor Henry P. Slane of the daily Peoria Journal (circ. 68,000) sent Pollster George Gallup a bristling telegram: CANCEL OUR SUBSCRIPTION. Like Gallup, Elmo Roper, Archibald Crossley and all the pollsters who had confidently predicted a Republican victory, Editor Slane had a morning-after headache. With the editors of some 30 other U.S. dailies who canceled their subscriptions to the polls, Editor Slane cried: "Never again!" But like many another swearing-off, it didn't take...
LeTourneau was the first to put earth-moving equipment on rubber tires, thus enabling it to go almost anywhere. He moved headquarters to Peoria, Ill., and cleared the land for new plant sites with his own equipment. By 1940, sales were up to $10 million. During the war they quadrupled, as LeTourneau built an estimated 70% of the basic earth-moving equipment used by the U.S. armed forces all over the world...
...years since its founding, Illinois' tiny (239 miles) Toledo, Peoria & Western has made lots of news, most of it bad. Long known by such names as the "Tired, Poor & Weary," the T.P. & W. was twice thrown into receivership, three times sold at auction, and has to its debit one of the nation's worst railroad disasters (81 killed). After World War II, a long and bitter strike resulted in the shotgun killing of two strikers (TIME, Feb. 18, 1946). In 1947, T.P. & W.'s anti-union President George McNear Jr. was himself killed by a shotgun blast...
When Russ Coulter became president, the T.P. & W. "not only had grass over the rails but, thanks to the spring floods, water as well." Headquarters was a rented office in Peoria's dingy Union Station; customers were practically nonexistent. Equipment was run down and morale was low. Russ Coulter, a Colby College graduate and a veteran railroader from the St. Louis-San Francisco ("Frisco") Railway Co., perked things up. Soon firemen were out on the tracks, voluntarily working at laborers' wages to put the roadbed in shape...
...blow, but Father Sheen went to work in St. Patrick's, Peoria, one of the poorest parishes in town. He made his sick calls and administered the last rites, begged for contributions and celebrated Mass. His sermons were so popular that people had to come an hour early to get seats; he drew large crowds from other parishes (which did not make him popu lar with their priests). After nine months, Peoria's Bishop Dunne called Sheen and told him that he was to go teach at Catholic University. "I promised you to them three years...