Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arty Sierra Madre, Los Angeles suburb, artists painted models in the streets. In front of Portland, Ore.'s handsome neo-Georgian Museum of Art (its façade draped with red, white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design...
...their joy over Art Week's quantity production, many first-rate artists had either refused to exhibit or had hung their least salable work. Though by mid-week Cleveland bought $1,250, San Francisco $1,300, New Orleans $210.15, Los Angeles $2,000, Denver $600, Jacksonville $580, Portland, Ore., $329.10 and New York City $2,700 worth of art, sales managers, disappointed in these figures, figured that Art Week's main purpose (selling art) was a flop. But art-loving President Roosevelt was undaunted. Said he: "I feel justified in recommending that Art Week be made an annual...
Jamaica, 80 miles south of Cuba and 500 miles north of the Panama Canal, is the only new U. S. base squarely within the Caribbean. For big, rugged Jamaica, the U. S. Navy has big plans : an anchorage at Portland Bight, in Galleon Harbor 33 square miles of land base; 100 acres near Williamsfield for a recreation centre and hospital mess ; a mile-square area south of May Pen for an emergency and auxiliary landing field. Near by at Port Royal the British naval dockyard, long neglected, will be improved by the U. S., providing the U. S. Navy with...
Douglas E. Bragdon 1G, Portland, Mc.; Hugh H. Chapman, Jr. 2G, Evansville, Ind.; Thomas D. Durrance 1G, Washington, D. C.; David M. Pratt 2G, Williams town, Mass.; Lloyd G. Carr 1G, Waynesbore, Va.; Kendrick S. Fow 1G, Durham, N. C.; Curtis B. Watson 1G, Haverford, Pa.; and Carl P. Swanson 4G, Pigeon Cove, Mass...
...wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well as to Liverpool) are even more disparate when laid against the extra miles the R. N. must plow from Portland, Devonport or even Pembroke...