Word: portland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Housing. "The flop houses-same thing. There was a time when you could go into the Workingmen's Palace, the Gem, Starr Hotel, the New Norway or the Portland and get a corner in the dorm for 14 to 20?. For a quarter you could get a shower, too, and there were lights in the big room. Now you don't find a place to lay down on the floor for less than 30? a night and most places charge...
Unique among the secretarial students is Miss Barbara Corrigan of Belmont, an ex-Wave who is studying under the GI Bill of Rights. A graduate of Westbrook Junior College, Portland, Me., Miss Corrigan spent 18 months in the Navy. She is already acquainted with the mysteries of shorthand and typing, but finds her pre-war touch dulled by life in the service and a brief review necessary...
What often does the trick is a quick sale, a quick repurchase by the dealer. But "used" 1946 models were so profitable that dealers competed ruthlessly to get them. Some dealers, ready cash in their hands, actually trail new cars through the streets of London. One day recently on Portland Street (London's auto row), a man had just pulled his new Sunbeam over to the curb to greet a friend when a dealer raced out of a nearby showroom and offered ?200 above list price for the car. The prize was worth the chase. A 1946 Armstrong worth...
Reckoning. In Portland, Ore., Carl Peterson sent the city a $6.80 bill for repairs on his windshield wiper, thrice damaged by thumb-handed cops tucking parking tickets under...