Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland's Mayor Robert Earl Riley...
...Portland, Ore., the seven men on a raft (TIME, Oct. 4) got off happily when lagging Oregon finally reached its $104 million quota...
Seven unhappy shipyard workers huddled on a raft near Portland, Ore., tired, hungry and cold. They were down to two days' chocolate rations. Within yoo-hoo distance floated the Coast Guard, sternly refusing them food, blankets, sympathy...
...West Coast Plan. Last week Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes clamped the Buffalo plan - with modifications -onto five West Coast areas: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Portland. There the manpower shortage has forced a slow scaling down of U.S. plane production goals, and threatens to knock them on the head in 1944 - despite occasional optimistic WPB estimates...
...shadow of giant Henry Kaiser's three Columbia River shipyards, the small Albina Engine & Machine Works of Portland has turned out 38 sub-chasers, won three "E" pennants, chopped down absenteeism, kept its 4,500 workers happy. Its secret: slick showmanship in employe relations. Samples...