Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...east. Behind them the trucks continued to roll towards the railroads. In Clint Anderson's notebook were written UNRRA's hopes-delivery in the next three weeks of 110,000,000 bushels of wheat from the plateaus and prairies of Minnesota, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Washington, Oregon. At last, the wheat was rolling...
...Done. In Portland, Ore., Robert Kuhn advertised in the Oregon Journal: "Veteran, wife, 10 dogs, 3 female cats, alligator, desire small furn. apt. We drink, smoke, stay up all night beating kettledrums." He got 25 offers...
...Giorgio Fruit, has fallen on the heirs apparent to the fruit empire, four of the childless little king's nephews. All told, they boss dozens of enterprises (orchards in the Sacramento Valley, a cannery and 8,000 acres of citrus groves in Florida, a box factory in Oregon, etc.), which netted $4,212,000 last year...
Heavy snows kept Oregon lumber camps closed during most of January and February. Strikes crippled production in the pine forests of the Pacific Northwest and the redwoods of California. Everywhere, lumberjacks grown used to soft city ways in high-paying jobs in war plants were none too eager to head back to the low pay and hard life of the woods. Those who did go back found a lack of portable sawmills, crawler trucks, etc., although lately the Civilian Production Administration has been handing lumbermen priorities to get them...
...tireless joiner, public speaker and partygoer, Palmer Hoyt gets around like no other Oregonian. He drinks his whiskey and gobbles his vitamin pills with equal gusto. His appetite for civic wheelhorsing has never been sated. He helped bring Henry Kaiser to Portland. As Oregon's first War Bond director, he put the state at the head of the U.S. in sales. His methods became the pattern for the national bond drives. In 1943 Hoyt slaved for six months as OWI's domestic director, fought hard to keep war news flowing free from needless and petty censorship...