Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...profitable $400,000) to a flashily rising press lord the Pacific Northwest was suddenly hearing about. In less than a month Sheldon F. (for Fred) Sackett, 44, had bought the Vancouver (Wash.) Sun, acquired a weekly (he rechristened it the Sun, too) across the Columbia River at Portland, Ore., and snatched, for a small down payment, a million-dollar Portland printing plant. He had served notice on Portland's venerable Oregonian and the Oregon Journal that they would have some competition "by apple blossom time." Fortified with income from three radio stations and his Coos Bay Times ("westernmost daily...
Advance Payment. In Portland, Ore., George A. Johnson confessed that he was employed last year when he collected $126 unemployment compensation, persuaded the judge that he is truly jobless now, and will pay back every cent out of the unemployment benefits he gets this year...
Connecticut's Senator Raymond Baldwin, who happened to be presiding, recognized the gallery immediately-with an order to clear it. But before Citizen Brooks Washburn, a well-heeled, 32-year-old Portland, Ore. war veteran, went down under the hammer locks of Capitol police, he addressed the chair again. "Mr. President," he yelled with muffled frenzy, "these men are bothering...
...ancient Crete. They had the same soft, staring eyes, tight smiles and ornate costumes. Actually they were made between 1680 and 1850, in a cutoff, primitive, fiercely Roman Catholic corner of western America. Last week 80 of them, on tour of the Pacific Coast, were on exhibition in Portland, Ore.'s art museum. Next stop: Seattle...
...barrel gusher had just blown in. But this time the excitement was not over oil. It was over steel-the $24,000,000 Lone Star Steel Co. blast furnace and plant which the Government had built during the war, right next to Texas' vast iron-ore deposits. It was the first-and only-blast furnace in Texas. Texans thought then that their fondest industrial dream of a native steel industry would finally come true. But at war's end, Lone Star was closed. If Texas wanted a steel industry, Texans would have to take over Lone Star from...