Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reserves; promoted to Captain in '33 and to Major in '39. During these years he was assigned to the 906th C.A. (AA) and remained with this organization until '41 when he was appointed Harbor Chaplain by Brig. General Robert C. Garrett, then commanding officer of the Harbor Defenses of Portland. It was during this tour of duty that Chaplain Veazie had a thrill few Army Chaplain are fortunate enough to experience, that of building a Chapel for the men of his organization at Fort Williams...
...spouted: "Yeah, I know all about it. Roosevelt and Churchill conferred in North Africa." In Wilkes-Barre, Pa. striking anthracite miners declined for a while to obey a Presidential request that they return to work because "it's a phony; the President's not in Washington." A Portland, Ore. reporter was informed by his wife that the President had been in Africa: she had heard it from her mother, who had heard it from her second husband, who had heard it at his Rotary luncheon. One slip was made inadvertently over the Associated Press wirephoto talker system...
...Hillyer Junior College, Hartford, Connecticut, and Portland Junior College, Portland, Maine, have recieved orders and will report at Fort Devens on February 12. A release from the headquarters of the First Service Command could not give any more definite date for the larger colleges except "in the next few weeks...
...citizens Henry John Kaiser symbolizes American industry at its best. Even when there was bad news about Kaiser-like the failure of his $6,000,000 Permanente magnesium plant in California-nobody heard much about it. But last week came bad news that got around: at Kaiser's Portland (Ore.) Swan Island yard the newly delivered 16,500-ton tanker Schenectady suddenly broke in half with a thunderous snap, settled in the water with its two-inch steel plates split clean asunder, the midship sections sticking out of the water like crags...
With Expansionist Hunter in the pilot's seat, Northwest pushed westward to Seattle and Portland, hiked gross revenues threefold to $5,000,000, lifted profits from zero to over $400,000. Meanwhile Hunter made a long survey flight to Alaska, followed it with a CAB petition for a commercial route to Fairbanks, others to New York City and Washington. But the war froze these petitions in their pigeonholes, forced Airman Hunter to look for something else. He found it in a big Army contract to fly anything & everything from Minneapolis to Alaska...