Word: portland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland...
...Bungles' heyday, they appeared in 250 newspapers, and netted their creator an estimated $60,000 a year. He bought an 18-room house, built along the lines of a moderate-sized hotel, on St. Louis' private, exclusive Portland Place, where he still lives. For a time, the Bungles formula seemed surefire: there was a good deal of POW, SOCK and WHAM to liven the adventures of shrewish Josephine and gullible George, whose chief vice was signing papers before he read them. But the Bungles' incessant quarreling, which would have exhausted any real life couple, eventually...
Going Home. Since Jan.1, more than 16,000 of the 120,000 shipyard and war workers at Portland, Ore. have headed for home and jobs with more postwar security. Result: boomtown Portland reported last week that newspaper ads listing houses for sale had doubled in number, real estate prices had dropped sharply...
...million loan (at 1½% interest) they recently got from Wall Street bankers. Orders were placed for ten C-3 type cargo vessels of 10,000 tons each, from the Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., and 20 small coastal ships from the Albina Engine & Machine Works, at Portland, Ore. Shipping men estimated the total cost at $50 million-almost twice as much as it would have cost to build the ships in Dutch yards before...
...Portland. Ore.. R. Tsubota. a truck farmer, brought a truckload of vegetables to the Portland Farmers' Market, found himself virtually boycotted. At nearby Gresham, citizens circulated a petition asking that all persons of Japanese blood be deported to a Pacific island...