Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FIRST POLAR FLIGHTS by U.S. airlines will start this fall. Pan American and T.W.A. will fly over the polar region from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Europe, while Pan Am will also fly via pole from Seattle and Portland, Ore. Scandinavia's SAS now is only line operating over polar route...
Acquitted last week by a Portland (Ore.) jury: Portland's Democratic Mayor Terry Schrunk, an indignant witness before the McClellan committee (TIME, March 18), who had been charged with perjury in denying to a county grand jury that he had taken a gambler's bribe while sheriff. Still ahead: trials on subornation of perjury and wiretap charges...
...private business to contribute products, exhibits and top executives to the trade missions at the fairs. They have also learned that commonplace U.S. gadgets are often the most effective crowd pleasers. At Zagreb, Yugoslav children were entranced by a machine that transformed powdered milk into ice cream. Says Portland, Ore. Businessman M. J. Edwards, a member of the mission to Zagreb: "You could not buy such good will with 50 times the amount of our investment in that fair...
DAVID H. CARLSON Portland...
...Brayton Polka '58, of Lowell House and Portland, Ore., has been awarded the $50 History and Literature Prize as the junior in the field showing the greatest promise...