Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland, Henry Kaiser's burgeoning shipyards hired so many workers that department stores have taken quarter-page ads for clerks; the draft takes 1,000 men a month from Kaiser's yards. Last week, impatient of waiting for Washington to act, Kaiser set up his own manpower system, went to New York City (whose 400,000 unemployed are one of the few real labor pools left in the U.S.), signed up 4,000 men in three days, shipped them across the continent...
Animal Kingdom. In Springfield, Mo., a painted merry-go-round horse galloped loose, jumped a fence into a fair ground. In Portland, Ore., a brainy greyhound at a dog track figured things out, took a short cut across the center, caught the mechanical bunny coming head on, won retirement. In Brantford, Ont, the local dogs ate their new, metal-saving, plastic license tags. In Washington, the Office of Defense Transportation officially ruled that oysters are not farm products. In Boston, Bartender Vito Lorizio heard an impatient thumping on the bar behind him, snapped, "Take your time," turned to find...
...five years Londoners have watched the cement-arc slowly growing across the river (see cut). The finished job, 80 ft. wide, with five 240-ft. spans in gleaming Portland stone, looked so fresh and handsome against their war-and weather-battered city that it seemed, like a lorgnette on a charwoman, uncomfortably elegant. The bridge's designer, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, sharing the public view, wistfully observed: "The chief feature is the underside...
Last Word. In Portland, Ore., a clause in the will of A. C. Forrester, late sanitary engineer, ran: "I give and bequeath unto the so-called sanitary engineering profession or professors a good healthy Bronx cheer...
...schedules, converted a dozen-odd twelve-passenger sleepers into regular 21-passenger transports. In the past six months the company's over-all "load factor" (i.e., percentage of carrying capacity used on all flights) has jumped about 20 points to a record 85%. On the important San Francisco-Portland run it is averaging an unprecedented...