Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee set the pattern for 'Swindle, Inc.' Aller's company received three times the rightful price. . . . Aller and his pal, Flash, are cooking up even more ambitious deals ... in Seattle, Portland, Ore., Spokane. . . . Louisville [is] listed on the bankers' books. Some of the blue chip banking outfits of the country are involved: Blyth & Co., Nuveen & Co., First Boston, Dillon, Read and others...
...champ chipped a bit of gilt off her successor's fame last week. Brenda Helser, one of Coach Jack Cody's Portland (Ore.) protégées, was the nation's swiftest woman sprint swimmer a year ago; then along came another West Coast mermaid, Ann Curtis (TIME, April 23), and snatched away her indoor and outdoor titles...
Clear the Decks. In Portland, Ore., a woman asked her ration board for ten pounds of canning sugar for her nameless baby, explained: "The baby isn't born yet, but I want to get my canning done before I go to the hospital." Where There's Smoke. In Neosho Rapids, Kan., Farmer Ralph Blank, burn ing trash, watched a plane circle and land in a field nearby. The pilot, a cigaret dangling from his lips, approached and begged a light...
Hood River, Ore...
Something Missing. In Dallas, Ore., chemists finally cleared the chlorine flavor out of local drinking water, found that doubting citizens were now afraid to drink the stuff...