Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Oregon Trail...
Before dawn broke that morning, Oregon's Wayne Morse, the Senate's alltime talkathon champion (22 hours, 26 minutes in last year's tidelands filibuster), strutted onto the Senate floor sporting a red, red rose. "This is a filibuster. I never fly under false colors," he rasped, adding that he would orate until the rose wilted...
...Jacksonville, Fla. for a year. Amateur decorators slapped on 75% (400 million gals.) of all the paint used in the U.S., pasted up 60% (150 million rolls) of all the wallpaper, laid 50% (500 million sq. ft.) of all the asphalt tile, enough to cover the entire state of Oregon. And while the menfolk labored mightily, 35 million U.S. women made their own clothes (using 750 million yds. of cloth), gave themselves 32 million home permanents, leafed through millions of copies of do-it-yourself magazines and books, looking for still more projects for their husbands and themselves...
...Oregon, also a veteran of the Spanish-American War, will be maintained for a year and then given to any state, city or association that will preserve them as shrines...
...mile Oregon Trail, traveled by so many wagons that their rutted tracks remained imprinted on the wilderness for decades, the pioneers fared worst along the fearsome Snake River valley...