Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yourself Christmas Tree. Six-foot Christmas trees with removable fir boughs that can be assembled at home were developed by Oregon Beauty Christmas Tree Co. for Montgomery Ward stores. The trees come in a kit containing 46 fireproofed Douglas fir boughs and a drilled wooden trunk into which the boughs are stuck to create a perfectly shaped tree. Price...
Died. Rufus C. Holman, 82, Old Guard Republican Senator from Oregon who spent his one Senate term (1939-45) ranting against New Deal policies, foreign and domestic, lauded Hitler for destroying a conspiracy of "international bankers," in the course of a losing primary fight (1944) against Wayne Morse refuted a charge of antiSemitism: "Now why would I be antiSemitic? My own father was an Englishman. I have relatives in England"; of a heart attack; in Eugene...
POLITICAL NOTES Poll Vaulting On his swing through Oregon, Presidential Hopeful Nelson Rockefeller sprayed just a whiff of doubt that Vice President Richard Nixon could win enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidential election (TIME, Nov. 23). Last week, in a visit to Rhode Island, he conceded that Nixon "probably" could win the election if it were held today. But, he added, "we can't foresee now what the circumstances will be a year from...
...Eastern National Livestock Show in Timonium, Md., virtually all honors in the Devon bull competition were swept by a Western cattleman. His bulls took blue ribbons for Grand Champion bull, Best Pair of bulls and Best Bull Calf. Owner: Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse...
...year-old housewife in the emergency room of St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse was in deep shock from massive internal bleeding. The problem: to find its source as fast as possible. Italian-born Dr. Goffredo G. Gensini buttonholed a visitor, Radiologist Charles Dotter from the University of Oregon. Dr. Dotter sterilized the G string of a guitar, punctured the main artery in the woman's thigh. then-watching the steel's progress under the fluoroscope-worked it up into the aorta, the body's main artery. When it was close to the heart, he slipped...