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With Mr. Jones's approval the eight railroads* last summer jointly applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to buy M. & St. L. ("The Peoria Gateway"), which has been in receivership for the past 13 years (TIME, Sept. 23). Purchase price was to be $7,200,000, lent by RFC. Last month while I. C. C. hearings were still being held on the plan, Minneapolis citizens got excited, began raising a war chest to fight the M. & St. L.'s dismemberment, asked Congress to go to bat for the integrity of the road. The Senate voted...
...works in 1875, branched from wholesaling into mail-order distribution, branched again into distribution through women & children who wanted to earn a few premiums. After 20 years, Larkin again branched, this time into chain stores. Today it has 100 stores in the Buffalo territory, another group of 75 around Peoria, Ill. Owned by the socialite Larkin family, it publishes no figures...
Pekin sits on the Illinois River ten miles below Peoria in the heart of the corn belt. Corn Products Refining Co. uses the corn to make Karo Syrup. The American Distilling Co. uses it to make Old Colony Gin. The American Distilling Co. employes are organized into a company union and an American Federation of Labor union. Last August an A. F. of L. man, employed as an engineer, was discharged for letting a vat of mash boil over. Fellow unionists protested. The man was rehired to haul ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which...
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Last week newspaper editors had in their hands not one electrocution picture but six, showing progressive stages in the execution of Gerald Thompson, Peoria, Ill. raper and girl-killer in Joliet State Penitentiary, Illinois (TIME, Aug. 12). With one exception, every paper in New York found some reason not to run the pictures. To the Mirror they were "distasteful." The Journal thought they "lacked local interest." The American deemed them "too poor to reproduce." Lone exception was the Daily News, which slipped one into its Sunday rotogravure supplement...