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...Even C.E.D.'s pet community committees have already showed up some difficulties in the Hoffman approach. Peoria, C.E.D.'s first test city, made a fine case history statistically; its businessmen made concrete plans to employ 30% more people after the war than they did in 1940. But when it came to publicizing their survey, all individual company plans had to be left out: they were trade secrets...
When Cliff Wherley was 14, he saw a movie about Sergeant York. That was in March 1942. He thought it over until 4 a.m., then slipped out of his Elmwood, Ill. home, caught a bus for Peoria, enlisted. Big for his age ("the best hay baler in the country"), Farmboy Wherley looked 18 to the U.S. Army...
...WADDELL Peoria...
...Inch broke, reducing the East's oil supplies even more (see p. 18). At Dupo, Ill., near St. Louis, one of the nation's largest freight yards (8,000 cars move there daily) was under water. Production was halted at a huge caterpillar tractor works in Peoria...
...year has passed since George Plummer McNear Jr. lost his fight against the Railroad Brotherhoods, and in doing so lost his Toledo, Peoria & Western Railroad to Government operation (TIME...