Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the wide, empty Nebraska prairies, up into the gulch-seamed Wyoming plateaus where the snow still lay in the ditches, on up the old Oregon Trail along the Snake River canyon, Harry Truman unfurled his pattern for an expanding economy in a free world. Sure, he wanted to balance the budget and cut taxes, he said, "just as soon as we safely can. But I will not join in slashing Government expenses at the cost of our national security or national progress." His programs were not really expenditures; they were investments in the future. Cried Truman...
...York State Public Service Commission threw the once ubiquitous U.S. nickel for another fall. The commission told the New York Telephone Co. that it might raise its basic coin-box charge to 10?. The Rochester Telephone Corp. had already done it, New Jersey, California, Washington and Oregon companies had asked for the same boost...
...awfully mixed up right now," Doherty commented yesterday. He has had offers from approximately 15 schools, including Oklahoma A & M, Oregon State, Colgate, Denver, St. Louis, Holy Cross, Syracuse, Yale, Princeton, and Dartmouth. Doherty will know within a day or two whether or not he plans to enter a prep school in the fall; if he decides to go to college, he will almost certainly come here...
Last week, as spring melted the high snows of the Cascade and Olympic mountains, warmed Idaho's forests of ponderosa pine and turned Oregon's rain-sprinkled coastal valleys a lush and tender green, the Northwest pulsed with prosperity and hope. Its clean and airy cities reflected neither the gaudiness nor the fevered excitement which westward migration had given Southern California, but the signs of expansion and new enterprise were everywhere...
...Oregon registration, Democrats outnumbered Republicans, 354,572 to 346,036, for the first time since the state began listing voters in 1905. Everybody ascribed the change to the postwar influx of job seekers, who have made traditionally conservative Oregon the fastest growing state in the Union...