Word: portland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, the fatherly Bureau of Indian Affairs had been trying to coax Oregon's Celilo Indians into abandoning their evil-smelling fishing village, perched on the cliffs above the Columbia River, 95 miles east of Portland. If they would move out, the Government promised, new quarters would be provided across the road, with concrete decks where visiting fishermen could pitch their wigwams, honest-to-Manitou houses for the permanent residents, and inside plumbing...
...Harry Truman had joined the Young Republican Club." The boss of one of the biggest U.S. soft-coal producers went into the oil business. With California Oil Co., a subsidiary of Standard of California, Pocahontas plans to spend about $1,500,000 building an oil terminal at Portland, Me. The 192,000-bbl. terminal will be supplied by Cal-Standard tankers...
...will comprise 50 percent of the trucking film, according to S. George Schiffer '50, Ivy's publicity director. Although the final shooting will take place within 15 miles of Boston, Ivy directors will first accompany truckers on a week-long series of rides to Eastern cities, including New York, Portland, Maine, and Rochester, New York. The plans, said Schiffer, are still in preliminary stages, but the club has already decided to use full sound, including a musical background. Ivy still owns no sound equipment, however...
BERNARD K. FRANK Portland...
Billet Doux. In Portland, Me., Floyd Kierstead, suing for divorce, charged his wife with carrying on a correspondence with the garbage collector, cited as evidence a love note he had found in the garbage...