Word: portlanders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...messages to the hostages originated, but it caught on with amazing speed. On one day, postal officials sent about 44,000 pieces of mail to Iran. The next day, the total more than doubled. The messages were simple and from the heart. Scrawled an eight-year-old boy in Portland, Ore.: "We hope you are releesed soon." In Tehran the militants guarding the U.S. embassy accepted the mail, and said some of it was being passed on to the hostages...
...says that his three-year-old firm is producing at capacity, 480 woodburners a day, at prices that run from $379 to $689, against a demand that exceeds 1,300 a day. Business is up 122% over last year. Morande talks bemusedly of visiting a retail stove store in Portland, Ore., where ten salesmen, gracing 1,000 sq. ft. of floor space, "actually were handing consumers numbers, just like in a delicatessen, to wait in line for a stove." Some economists dismiss such sales as "life-style purchases, made to express social attitudes." Believers go right on cutting, scrounging...
Atlanta 106, Portland...
...money. Since 1969, the cost of books has soared by 106%. Libraries are funded chiefly by local governments and must compete for their share of revenue with life-and-death municipal services like police and fire departments. "The property tax is a killer," says Edward Chenevert, library director in Portland, Me. Complains Dale Perkins, 46, library director for California's San Luis Obispo County: "We are just one sixty-fifth of the county budget-right in there with mosquito abatement...
Justly or not, the first wave of rage is usually directed at the airline for not doing more to prevent crashes. Says Sandy Clay, a survivor of the United crash at Portland, Ore., last December: "I wanted to blow up the airline. I tried to run over an executive of the company after they forced me to take sick leave and workmen's compensation." Some would like to get back to work, but feel they are treated like pariahs. Others are terrified about flying again, and shocked that employers ignore the effects of trauma and want them right back...