Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years ago, I pointed out to you the inaccuracies in an article you printed about the Portland Oregonian and me in your issue of Jan. 7, 1935, and I closed my letter with the suggestion that your publisher retain me to teach TIME the art of being accurate in its reporting...
...onetime share of freight traffic. For some years roads have been combatting truck competition by resuming an old practice of running "redball" (fast) freights, freeing the tracks for them and sending them as much as 500 miles in a night. During 1939: Union Pacific began to run one from Portland, Ore. to Boise, Idaho, another from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City, another from Denver to Kansas City. Southern Pacific started trains running overnight to Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz, from Los Angeles, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe scheduled redball freights from Chicago to Texas in 24 hours, Chicago to Kansas City...
Wags in busy, whirring Seattle joke about the woman who told a census taker: "I have three sons, two living and one in Portland." Easy-going Portlanders scorn their frenetic rival to the north, refer with somnolent pride to their "city where it's always afternoon...
Last week Portland's afternoon quiet was abruptly shattered. From Dr. Paul J. Raver, the brisk administrator of Bonneville Dam, came the biggest news the Northwest has had in many a noontime. Aluminum Co. of America had contracted to build a $3,000,000 plant on the Columbia River eight miles from Portland and two miles west of Vancouver, Wash., use 32,500 kilowatts of Bonneville power (to be transmitted over aluminum cables...
...Portland, to all Oregon and to Seattle as well, these were stupendous tidings. Ever since the U. S. Government began to build Bonneville Dam (on the Columbia River) with its huge potential output of 502,400 kilowatts, and Grand Coulee Dam farther up the same river with its titanic 1,890,000 kilowatts to come, the looming question in the Northwest has been: Who will buy the power? Enterprising, efficient private utilities already had developed home consumption of electricity in Oregon to a point nearly twice the national average (760 kw-h per customer). Clearly the one answer...