Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seattle: The atmosphere is getting grim....Portland, Grays Harbor, Seattle and other centers blacked out tonight....There is none of that wild hysteria, such as was produced by Mr. Orson Welles, but people are worried. A woman called the city desk and said she heard sounds of bombings: "I'm not a bit excited," she said, "I just wondered if you heard bombs. ..." On Seattle blackout nights gangs of high-school boys and girls run the streets, yelling "Put out your lights" and having a wonderful time. In the early morning on the way to work no lights...
...Portland: Blacked out. Portlanders have worked into the routine smoothly except that they turn lights on dangerously early in the mornings....Night fogs, common at this season, are now welcomed as Portlanders watch for the grey haze rolling up the Columbia and Willamette Rivers at dusk. They like to compare Portland fogs to London fogs-previously treasonable...
...Portland, Ore., Jim Zilka, golfer, made a hole in one. His father, Henry, would have made a hole in one if his ball had not struck his son's, and bounced...
...when the flash came that the Japanese had attacked Hawaii. In Topeka they were listening to The Spirit of '41 and napping on their sofas after dinner. In San Francisco, where it was not quite noon, they were listening to the news, Philharmonic and Strings in Swingtime. In Portland, Maine, where it was cold but still sunny, they were lining up for the movies...
...practically all the plastics," explains the machine's inventor, Engineer Frederick Kurt Kirsten of the University of Washington. "Up to now it has had to be ground-a laborious process-and much of it came from Norway and Sweden." Within a few weeks, a plywood factory in Portland, Ore. sold several carloads of wood dust, a profitable by-product of purifying...