Word: portland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outing. In Portland, Ore., Motorman E. E. Burton took a critical look at his hot, perspiring streetcar passengers, pulled to a stop, bought Eskimo pies for the whole crowd...
This week, in the nation's first statewide election this year, Maine's citizens elected Representative Margaret Chase Smith to the Senate over the Democrats' Dr. Adrian H. Scolten, a Portland dermatologist and political newcomer. Trim, handsome Mrs. Smith, who looks as most clubwomen would like to look, becomes the first woman to be elected to the Senate entirely on her own merits...
...Goods. In Portland, Ore.,.Policewoman Florence Findley released a suspected shop lifter for lack of evidence, discovered that her wallet and badge had been stolen...
...first thing they found when they arrived last week was a pleasant little duplex waiting for them. They had no sooner moved in than their phone began to ring and visitors were calling. It was all a part of Portland's welcome to its 250 new teachers...
...welcoming program was an ex-school teacher named Georgia B. Howe, who remembers what it is like to be lonely on a new job. Miss Howe had arranged everything-apartments, luncheons of crab Louis and boysenberry pie, a picnic in the park, a tea at the Art Museum. The Portland Symphony gave a special concert; the Civic Theater arranged a concert-drama evening; the city put on a garden party. There was also a day-long trip up Mount Hood. Local clubs had donated the buses, neighboring towns were waiting with ice cream and coffee, restaurants gave away box lunches...