Word: portland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposals for restoration of consumer rationing came from Mrs. Maurice Sagoff, chairman of the Massachusetts Consumers' Advisory Committee to the OPA, and from George C. Kern, a Portland, Maine, meat packer, and spokesman for the National Association of Indepent Meat Packers...
...World War I veterans, 2) keeping the atomic bomb secret; against: 1) increased immigration, 2) Communists on the ballot, 3) taking a stand on merger of the armed services. As their next national commander the veterans chose Oregon's Louis E. Starr, 48, World War I infantryman, Portland lawyer. World War II veterans failed to win a major national office...
...dominated wartime competition so completely that he came to be called "Mr. Golf" was sick & tired of the game. Last week Byron Nelson, nervous, greying and ailing at 34, turned up in Portland, Ore. to defend his national pro championship. Before the tournament got under way he announced that it was his farewell to year-round golfing...
Neutrality & Neighbors. Afghanistan is now on the threshold of a vast modernization program under the direction of Public Works Minister Mohamed Kabir Ludin, a Cornell graduate, whose Chief Engineer is John B. Alexander of Portland, Ore. They are now assembling material and workers to build roads, irrigation projects, airfields, hydroelectric plants and schools...
...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...