Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DEAN POLLOCK Milwaukie, Ore...
There were also some war casualties: New England's famed Berkshire Festival abandoned because of gas rationing, rubber shortage); summer opera at Colorado's ghost town, Central City (abandoned Because of tire and bus shortages); the Portland (Ore.) Midsummer Night concerts (Army regulations restrict the size of audiences...
...Southern States pushed power output 18.8% over a year ago; on the Pacific Coast the gain was 17%. The U.S. total was up 11.7%. Steel production held close to capacity, although steelmakers said another scrap pinch was on the way. Carloadings dipped because of sharp declines in ore and lumber shipments...
Tarzan Triumphs—"a story of the ape-man's defense of the British Empire against the Nazis in Deepest Africa." To reporters in Portland, Ore., Lana Turner confided: "Hollywood is not as bad as some writers picture it. We have the most dignified and refined and gentle manly people that you could find in the world...
...workers had formed labor-management production committees (including 51 in Du Pont, 50 in U.S. Steel, 25 in Westinghouse) to build morale and to collect ideas for increasing production. Their coverage ranged all the way from 45,000 participants at Douglas Aircraft to 19 in Portland, Ore.'s Armstrong Manufacturing Co. (which makes saw-sharpeners). Hundreds more joint committees were in the making. Moreover, WPB files were swarming with enthusiastic reports from the field...