Word: loops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Freireich's discovery was anticipated by bored Broadwayites, who have made a pastime of "bolts and jolts"-mixtures of barbiturates and benzedrine which knock them for a loop, then slap them...
Shortly after midnight, people in the La Salle Hotel's big, ornate lobby in Chicago's Loop noticed a strange yellow light reflecting from polished table tops, from marble and window glass. The wavering glare grew. They looked up and saw flames billowing gustily across the dark, varnished paneling above the elevator bank...
...Army had arranged a big show. Chicago turned out, some 1,000,000 strong, on a cold and windy morning. They gathered along streets of the Loop to watch the President's party drive to Michigan Boulevard's Blackstone Hotel. There were some cheers as smiling Harry Truman's car passed. For the car behind his, carrying General Dwight Eisenhower, Admiral William D. Leahy and Treasury Secretary Fred Vinson, there were prolonged huzzahs...
...from their first convention in 1905, when howling Wobblies jammed a Loop auditorium, sang Dump the Bosses Off Your Back, retired at intervals for schooners of beer at Hinky Dink Kenna's saloon. Last week there was no singing, no beer, little rejoicing...
...Chicago, distributors have fixed a minimum of ten weeks before a film shown in high-priced Loop houses can be shown in low-priced neighborhood theaters. Independent operators have squirmed under this system, which is roughly the same in all big cities. But most of them have not been financially strong enough to do anything about...