Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Silver Bloc. Portland (Ore.) restaurants report heavy increases in thefts of silverware. Their theory: Portland's thousands of new war workers, now starting to furnish 28,683 emergency houses built in the area, are thus assembling their household flatware...
...Portland (Ore.) Art Museum celebrated its 50th anniversary last week, invited Portland's upper crust to a preview of birthday exhibits. A reporter for Portland's Oregon Journal was there, accompanied by a photographer who popped flash bulbs until he was told he was "annoying the guests," was asked to leave...
...years that is the way it has been in Portland...
...when the afternoon Portland Journal was only four months old but already dying of stiff competition (from the morning Oregonian and the now defunct Portland Telegram), Sam Jackson moved to Portland, bought it, with it proceeded to acquire profits and prestige...
...potent. Editors often were told by Sam that "Ria says" this or that ought to be done; they did it. She heard that the outworn U.S.S. Oregon, relic of the Spanish-American War, was to be decommissioned by the Navy. Said she: it ought to be brought to Portland, turned into a shrine. Soon the massive battleship was anchored in the Willamette River in downtown Portland...