Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They read: "Ladd & Bush Salem-Branch of the United States National Bank of Portland." For 71 years (almost the age of Salem) it had kept the money of Salem and the inhabitants of Oregon's lush Willamette Valley. Together the three had prospered...
...reputed price of $1,200,000, straitlaced, teetotaling, 83-year-old Asahel Nesmith Bush ("Asahel II") sold his bank last week to branch bankers from Portland. Third oldest State bank in the Pacific Northwest, Ladd & Bush was also the region's third biggest independent. On its books were $11,220,150 deposits, $508,093 surplus & undivided profits. Once forced to take a $250,000 RFC loan, the Bush Bank nevertheless earned an average $156,400 over the last five years...
LAURA B. ALEXANDER Portland...
...potential capacity: 518,400 kilowatts) and bigger Grand Coulee Dam (1,890,000 kilowatts) on the nonindustrialized Columbia River, Northwesterners have wondered who was going to buy the power. Last Christmas they got an initial answer: Aluminum Co. of America contracted to build a $3,000,000 plant near Portland, buy 32,500 kilowatts of Bonneville juice...
...Boise, Salt Lake, Portland, Cheyenne, Owosso and most of the U. S., New York, if not exactly Sodom and Gomorrah, is still the city of sin and cynicism, full of rackets. And nobody ever gave them such a bill of particulars as Thomas Dewey...