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...wish't I was in Peoria, Peoria tonight...
Left guard Purvis Collins is a South Carolinian, with Junior College hoop experience, while V-12er Bill Burk makes his home in Peoria, Illinois...
Gladys & Milt first met in 1937-and immediately disliked one another intensely. Montgomery Ward had hired Milt to open its new Peoria store, Gladys to run the cooking school. They bickered over the way to run the school until Milt walked into one of Gladys' lectures one day and spotted a pot roast she had cooked. It tasted so good he kissed Gladys in front of the tittering class, 18 months later married...
Vicious Circle. In Peoria, Ill., a frustrated burglar gave up after trying four times to crack a safe with a welding torch that promptly sealed up each hole that it melted open...
...April and just 250 times as much as a year ago. A small army of biochemists and mycologists had contributed to this achievement. Last week their leader told how it was done. Dr. Robert D. Coghill, of the U.S. Agriculture Department's Northern Regional Research Laboratory in Peoria, Ill., addressing chemists in Manhattan, reported that new methods developed in his laboratory had speeded up the making of penicillin 150-fold. The huge effort concentrated on penicillin-hundreds of scientists, 21 manufacturers, $20,000,000 in plants-has been concerned with one major problem: how to make the mold that...