Word: portland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject to their regular high-school students, who will then go home and be father's little helpers. In Detroit, tax officials estimated that the hole-in-the-wall advisers, with their eyes open or shut, got the right answers about 10% of the time. In Portland, Ore., ambulances responded twice to calls from collectors' offices. A woman confronted with her final figure was "in a state of collapse"; a strong man who had spied his had fainted. And Oregon's Collector of Internal Revenue J. W. Maloney announced that he was unable to figure...
...Portland...
...Marine women come from many places and occupations. Tall, dark-haired 2nd Lieut. Jane Greenough, who is now an aerial photo interpretation officer at nearby Cherry Point, is a graduate of Vassar and was working in the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum when she joined the Corps. Private Edna Thomas, now an aerial gunnery instructor, was an elementary schoolteacher in Savonburg, Kans. 1st Lieut. Virginia O'Meara, who wears her greying hair upswept, was an assistant scriptwriter in Hollywood before she started her own insurance business in Bayside...
...Portland...
...days Palmer Hoyt tried to run the Domestic Branch of OWI the same way he used to run his newspaper. It had taken him twelve years to grow from copyreader to publisher of the Portland Oregonian; it took him six months to convince Washington once more that the often-lamented shortage of Westerners in the Federal administration is Washington's loss...