Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bugs. In Portland, Me., Mrs. Bill LaRose, after a losing battle against bedbugs, prepared to fumigate, repaint and repaper her sailors' rooming house. She peeled off wallpaper, found 17 $100 bills. "God bless bedbugs," said...
...years Dermatologist Thomas W. Ross of Portland, Ore. has used silk stockings as emergency bandages to hold dressings in place. They were cool, comfortable, easy to apply and clean. A month ago he suggested that the women of the U.S. save their silk stockings for first-aid work instead of throwing them away when they got runs...
Last week, when Portland women got runs, they did not toss their laddered stockings into the wastebasket. Instead they sent them to the Salvation Army, where they were fumigated, packed. Then they were stuffed into the crates of fighting planes, en route to China...
...Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. (Portland), Todd-California Shipbuilding Corp. (Richmond-Calif.), California Shipbuilding Corp. (Los Angeles) and Richmond Shipbuilding Corp. (also Richmond...
Further information may be had at the following Naval Reserve Recruiting Offices, 13th Floor, 150 Causeway St., Boston; Naval Reserve Armory, Old Pest Office Building, Portland Maine, where a few minutes heart-to-heart talk with an understanding officer will help you and where your particular talents can be used to your advantage and Uncle...