Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still proud, resolute, massively beautiful. As she lolled at anchor in the Willamette River in downtown Portland last week the sunbeams wriggled through her superstructure, flicked over the letters OREGON. Once she was the bravest battleship in the U.S. Fleet, the heroine and toast of the whole U.S. Now Washington had consigned her to the junk heap, where her 10,300 tons of steel, copper and brass could be turned into fighting metals for World...
...carried Marines to Peking during the Boxer rebellion, was on duty at the Panama-Pacific Exhibition, served as a World War I training ship, escorted transports for General William Sidney Graves's Siberian expedition in 1918. Decommissioned after World War I, she was supposed to become a Portland public monument (like the Constitution in Boston). But now her metal is too precious: she must die in a junk yard...
...qualities of leadership had been developing since he was a youngster, the first of six children of the Rev. David Owen Ghormley, Presbyterian minister of Portland, Ore. When Bob Ghormley was ten, the family moved to Moscow, Idaho, and it was from there he entered the Academy...
...audience: some 5,000,000 listeners to the Town Meeting of the Air. Big Palmer Hoyt, onetime city editor, now publisher, of the Portland Oregonian, was listened to with respect, for his paper has a reputation for fair dealing. Said "Ep" Hoyt...
While Henry Kaiser was in Washington arguing for permission to build planes, his able son Edgar, in charge of the three Kaiser yards at Portland, Ore., was busy making plans for converting the yards and figuring how the planes could be built. Accustomed to many makeshifts, he figured on buying little machinery, making tools on hand do as much as possible...