Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only other states which permit dog racing: Massachusetts, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Montana...
...Injuns on the brain." Even on a tour of Switzerland, he sat on a rock "fancying myself again in the American woods with an Indian companion." His ailment, if such it was, gave strength and color to some of the most readable history written by any U.S. scholar (The Oregon Trail, The Conspiracy of Pontiac). Parkman was born a Boston Brahmin, but spent much of his life covering, on foot and on horseback, the wild Western ground he was to write about. His journals, in some respects more valuable than his books, disappeared in 1904, barely mined by scholars. Biographer...
...campaign has been partly successful. Last summer, with a brief discussion and a 196-to-133 vote, the House approved statehood for Hawaii. Next month the Senate will send Oregon's Guy Cordon to make another one of several congressional on-the-spot investigations. When the Senate takes a vote in its regular session next year, democracy will get an acid test. But it will be the mainland's democracy which gets the test. For Hawaii is the most democratic area under the U.S. flag...
...Oregon, not to be forgotten, boasts of Mount Hood with a mile-long chair lift, several rope tows, the Golden Rose tournament, and countless choice fast open slopes. Also in Oregon is Crater Lake, largely for natives and those who seek fresh, unpacked snow...
...real pressure for the ban had little to do with disease; it came from Washington and Oregon nursery men, who resented the popularity of Dutch bulbs among U.S. home gardeners. Whispered one member of the department: "The problem is commercial, but we are trying to solve it biologically...