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They will speak at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, on March 31; Olivet-Nazarene College at Kankakee, Illinois, on April 2; Bradley University, at Peoria, Illinois, on April 3; and Illinois College, of Jacksonville, Illinois, on April...
...fortnight after he sentenced five college basketball players to prison for accepting gamblers' bribes, Manhattan Judge Saul S. Streit handed down his judgment against three others. The players, all from Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., had admitted accepting an offer of $500 apiece for throwing a Madison Square Garden game. But this time all got off with suspended sentences. The real culprits, according to Judge Streit, were not present in his courtroom...
...Caterpillar Tractor Co. borrowed $35 million to expand its plants in Joliet and Peoria, Ill., and to build a new plant in York, Pa. which will be used to supply its eastern and Canadian dealers...
...shovelful of New Jersey dirt (TIME, Jan. 29, 1945), Pfizer added it to its line, while continuing a search for an antibiotic of its own. Since no one ever knows where a new antibiotic will be turned up (the purest penicillin strain was discovered growing on a melon in Peoria), Pfizer began to check the molds in 100,000 different samples of soil, gathered from all over the world. The job, says McKeen, was to find "the compounds that God has put in the earth for centuries." After uncovering 75 possible antibiotics, none of which did the trick, Pfizer chemists...
Astor left college immediately. It is rumored that he became a traveling salesman operating out of Peoria...