Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...researching and manufacturing long-range gas bags, mostly of mulberry-bark paper. Some 9.000 were launched. Only 283 are known to have landed in the Eastern Pacific or North America. No military damage was done. A few grass fires were started and six people were killed-when an Oregon child tampered with an unexploded bomb...
...Newspaperman? He had revitalized one paper before. A Baptist minister's son, he spent 18 months in France with the A.E.F., worked his way through the University of Oregon's Journalism School (whose dean told him he would never make a newspaperman). Married while still in college, Ep Hoyt did janitor work in churches, sports correspondence for the Oregonian, spent summer vacations lum-berjacking in eastern Oregon...
...landing on the Oregonian for his second copydesk stretch, he got $45 a week, wrote Westerns for the pulp market on the side. After twelve years he was publisher, already deep in the job of restyling the stodgy Oregonian, pepping it up for a successful circulation battle with the Oregon Journal...
Discharge Points? Republicans made the best of the bad week at the White House. Said Oregon's smart Senator Wayne Morse: "This Administration shows not only confusion and indecision, but also a lack of intelligent comprehension of the industrial and economic issues." Another GOPster, thinking of Harry Truman's massive 21-point legislative program, quipped: "The President has so many points that he'll soon have enough for discharge as commander in chief...
When Senator Fulbright was through, two Republican liberals, Minnesota's Joseph Ball and Oregon's Wayne Morse, commended him for his stand...