Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Earl Snell, 52, governor of Oregon; in a hunting-trip plane crash; on a plateau in southern Oregon. Killed in the same crash: State Senate President Marshall Cornett, 49, next in line of succession for the governorship; Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell Jr., 41, who had thought of running for governor in 1951, after the expiration of Snell's term...
...followed the English common law, which holds that the husband is the lord and master, and as such owns all family property. But in recent years, common-law states have seen many of their prosperous citizens move to community-property states. In the last year, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nebraska and Oregon have switched in self-defense to the community-property concept...
...Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nebraska, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Oklahoma...
Before California can make Rose Bowl plans it must first get past unbeaten Southern California (which flattened Oregon State last week, 48-6) and once-beaten U.C.L.A. (which defeated Stanford...
...Washington, Government officials talked of a coal shortage in many cities this winter. U.S. coal production was off so much that adequate stockpiles for winter could not be built up. In Oregon, some lumber mills had so much wood stacked around that they had to close for lack of storage space...