Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portland, Ore.'s breezy Mayor Robert Earl Riley smoothed his pin-striped suit, tossed away a cigar butt, kissed his wife and daughter goodby, lit a new cigar and was off for England. He lands this week, will tour the countryside for eight weeks under the auspices of the Office of War Information, make speeches, answer questions, give Britons a chance to know-and, OWI hopes, to love-a typical U.S. mayor...
...Maritime Commission had spent a lot of money to make sure that workers got cheap, comfortable transportation from downtown Portland, Ore. to three Kaiser shipyards. One million dollars was paid for two ferries which in gayer days had taken San Francisco vacationists across the Bay to the World Fair. Now, for 10?, a worker could buy a round-trip ferry ticket to the Swan Island yards or the Oregon Shipbuilding Co. Twenty railroad cars were purchased from the Southern Pacific. These offered a round trip to the Vancouver yards...
Cargill men hope this will be enough inducement for grain, coal and ore ship pers to make Port Cargill their rail-ship transfer point (WPB designated it the region's ore transfer point for war ship ping this spring, but retracted when Minneapolis and St. Paul objected). Cargill has long boosted river shipping, contended the big obstacle was not shallow channels, but lack of the proper boats. At war's end, Cargill, for the first time, will have an efficient, top-notch yard to rectify that...
Associate Justice William Orville Douglas of the U.S. Supreme Court came down out of the Wallowa Mountains to Portland, Ore. He confessed that, during nearly three vacation months in his cabin, whose radio is busted, he had read "about six newspapers," had no idea what was going...
...caught and sank at least one that fled, but nine reached Sweden. There was a skirmish at the Royal Barracks. Danes and Germans fell in a clash at the Amalienborg, where some of the royal family watched and waited. The battle was heard in Sweden, 20 miles across the Ore Sund...