Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Official Backer. In Warrenton, Ore., Mayor F. M. Wilson stepped on the gas, shot backwards into a store, stopped in front of a clerk's desk, turned inquiringly to his fellow passenger, who politely refused His Honor a driver's license...
Pennywise. In Portland, Ore., sidewalk orator Phillip Baker demanded that police protect his right of free speech, complained that every time he opened his mouth a listening drunk tossed in a penny...
...IRON to STEEL. In May, the House approved the Government's motion to transfer "appropriate sections" to public ownership. After further study, a bill will be offered, probably recommending nationalization of iron ore, coke ovens unaffected by the coal bill, pig iron and most steel ingot manufacture, heavy rolling mills and some finishing plants. Just where the line can or will be drawn is a question. Meantime, the Government will appoint a Steel Control Board to oversee the industry and insure raw materials supply, and may carry out modernization schemes taken from the industry's own plan...
...much more time than it takes to lay a keel, war-born Vanport City became Oregon's second largest city (pop. 39,000). When V-J day came and its Kaiser shipyard workers left, the city-midway between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, Ore.-began to die. Last week the joint was jumping again...
This week Ohio's metropolis buzzed happily with plans for making its Founders' Day a memorable sesquicentennial event. Up the twisting, industry-fouled, rat-grey Cuyahoga (rhymes with buy a toga) River, now edged with iron and steel furnaces, oil refineries, factories, warehouses, docks and long ore, coal and grain ships, a small boat will bring Leading Citizens to re-enact the landing (complete to an Indian greeter). There will be the inevitable Civic Luncheon (Clevelanders love anything with the word Civic in front of it). That night in the spacious downtown Mall there will be carnival: floats...