Word: portland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miles of track, the longest in the U.S. The two roads' revenue last year amounted to $778 million, second only to the Pennsylvania's. Included in the merger would be the railroads controlled by the two lines: the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (1959 revenues: $263 million), the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, the Colorado & Southern, and the Fort Worth & Denver...
...collect sculpture. In 1939 he paid $1,900,000 for two Syracuse papers after a single telephone call from a broker. Says Newhouse: "He called and said, 'Do you want to buy Syracuse?' And I said, 'Sure.' " Newhouse paid $5,250,000 - cash - for the Portland Oregonian without ever seeing the plant. Newhouse's cash re serves are so plentiful, his acquisitiveness so indefatigable, that last year he bought a $5,000,000 controlling interest in Conde Nast Publications, which publishes Vogue and five other magazines, as a surprise anniversary present for his wife Mitzi...
...Newhouse likes to be a bit off handed about his press purchases. Ex plaining that his son Donald, who is pub lisher of the Jersey Journal (circ. 93,998), also oversees Newhouse papers in Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala. and in Portland, Ore., Newhouse says of his Post deal: "Denver makes a nice stop on the way from Alabama to Portland." Be that as it may, Sam Newhouse picked up a slice of a famed newspaper...
Such journalism was inimitable. But after Bonfils' death in 1933, the Post began to resort to the all-too-imitable. In 1946, Bonfils' heirs hired a new editor, Edwin Palmer Hoyt, from the Portland Oregonian, where he had risen in twelve years from the copy desk to publisher. Sweeping out vestigial traces of the circus makeup, Hoyt gave the Post its first real editorial page, completed the Post's conversion into a sober, dependable and stodgy newspaper...
...Advance, Jamaica (N.Y.) Long Island Press, Newark Star-Ledger, Long Island City Star-Journal, Syracuse Herald-Journal, Post-Standard and Herald-American (Sunday), Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot and News, Jersey City Jersey Journal, Portland Oregonian, Birmingham News, Huntsville (Ala.) Times, St. Louis Globe-Democrat...