Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months South Portland (Me.) Shipbuilding Corp. built only eight of the 84 Liberty Ships called for by its contract with the U.S. Maritime Commission. This was the worst record anywhere-but South Portland Ship's profits already were nearly 200% and could run up to 2,000% on the investment. Last week the House Merchant Marine Committee told...
...three months the committee had investigated the plant, organized by William S. ("Pete") Newell, president of Bath Iron Works and good friend of Maritime Commission head Rear Admiral Emory S. Land. Pete Newell and associates had organized the firm with $250,000 borrowed from Portland banks (the interest to be paid by the Maritime Commission) and up to Oct. 31 had received $450,000 in fees from the Commission...
...committee now reported, "the inevitable conclusion is that South Portland Ship is receiving a fee for the trouble of incorporating a company, choosing a name for that company, holding an occasional directors' meeting and delegating the performance of its contract duties...
This week Colonel Bendetsen got an unexpected, embarrassing sequel to the Japanese migration: when a young Japanese-American citizen violated curfew regulations, Portland's Federal Judge James Alger Fee ruled that the curfew law covered aliens only, that General DeWitt had no power over citizens. The reason: martial law had never been declared, was merely assumed. Possible results: 1) declaration of martial law on the Pacific Coast; 2) increased difficulty in enforcing dimouts, etc.; 3) court action by citizen Japanese who may construe from Judge Fee's ruling that they are illegally kept in camps...
...children examined in 1934 by the U.S. Public Health Service, the average number of damaged permanent teeth in 13-year-old boys was 3.09 in Florida, 5.69 in Massachusetts. In San Diego only 45.5% of the schoolchildren have cavities or fillings, compared with 77.5% in temperate Portland...