Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Airplane Co. (TIME, July 19), who retired in 1934 to devote all his time to his lumber business, has just closed one of the Northwest's biggest timber deals. For $13 million, Boeing has sold his 23,000-acre tract (1 billion bd. ft.) of fir along the Oregon coast to Georgia-Pacific Plywood...
Born in Portland, Ore. in 1901, Pauling went to Oregon State College, then to CalTech, and did postgraduate research in Europe. He joined the CalTech faculty in 1927 and has been a full professor there since 1931. Though his interests have been almost purely scientific, softspoken, outspoken Dr. Pauling has not escaped political conflict. He served as vice president of the World Federation of Scientific Workers (which has Communist members), and this brought him to the attention of California and congressional investigating committees. Dr. Pauling has denied that he has ever been a Communist. He says, however, that he will...
Electronic Cousin. For papers everywhere, the 1954 election was tough to cover. In the seesaw New Jersey race, the New York Post ran a banner head line: CASE LEADS HOWELL. Under it was a picture of "Senator-elect Howell, who defeated Republican Clifford P. Case." In Oregon, Eugene Register-Guard Editor William Tugman wrote an explanation of why the Democratic senatorial candidate, Richard Neuberger, lost, next day took it back with an article headed: NEUBERGER WINS AFTER ALL, MAYBE, HUH? FINE ARGUMENT FOR VOTING MACHINES...
...Pacific Coast Conference, the high-scoring Bruins of U.C.L.A. demonstrated once more that they are the class of the West and ran away from Oregon, 41-0. But the Bruins are ineligible for this year's Rose Bowl game, and U.S.C. all but earned the job of greeting the Big Ten visitors on New Year's Day by beating Stanford...
...Oregon's Multnomah County, Mrs. Edith Green, 44, who was named Oregon's "outstanding girl" 28 years ago, lived up to her early promise. She defeated Republican Tom McCall, who had, in turn, won over G.O.P. Incumbent Homer Angell in the primary election. Mrs. Green, a trailer-court operator, got Portland's labor vote, despite the fact that McCall stressed his own union membership (in the television and radio artists' union...