Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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OREGON: George H. Barnes, Portland...
...Portland Summer Symphony became the first concert orchestra to hire Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy as guest artists. Object: to wipe out a $1,500 deficit. (Failed by $500, because of bad weather.) McCarthy gagged between numbers, did not conduct the orchestra. Said Conductor Paul LeMay, who did: "I wouldn't do it again...
...When the Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. learned Fiorello H. LaGuardia would stop at the city airport en route from Syracuse to New York City, he declared a public holiday. New York City's hedgehopping Mayor flew over the field, circled several times, winged off. ∙ ∙ In Portland, Ore., an empty car rolled away from the curb, rammed a car driven by former Senator Rush Dew Holt of West Virginia...
Three years ago, in Portland, squat, square-jawed Theodore Patrick Flynn, senior equipment engineer for the U.S. Forest Service, started working on a power-driven saw. Several logging-equipment companies in the Northwest began to manufacture the saws experimentally, but they caught on slowly with lumbermen...
Best long-distance answer is pipelines. But each time oilmen push pipelines they crash head on with railroad lobbies. Of the four new pipelines proposed, only one-a 250-mile line between Portland, Me. and Montreal-was under unimpeded construction last week. Congress still stewed over the Cole Bill (granting rights of way to pipelines). If it passes despite railroad opposition, and new pipelines are laid at once, they will still carry no oil before next spring...