Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politically, his opponent was not so much Adlai Stevenson as it was the Democratic Party. But from the time the President first took there was every indication that he would also defeat that foe. Everywhere he went-from Peoria to Portland. Ore. to Miami Philadelphia-cheering...
HENRY J. KAISER is returning to Pacific Northwest scene of his big World War II shipbuilding operation. For about $8,000,000, Kaiser Gypsum Co. has bought Fir-Tex Insulating Board, Inc., of Portland, Ore., plus 15,000 acres of timberland in Oregon, Washington...
...carefully checked, and I believe it to be true." While running a story on Hagerty's press conference, many of Pearson's regular outlets pointedly omitted his offending column. Typical explanation (by New York's Daily Mirror): "The facts did not substantiate" what Pearson wrote. The Portland Oregon Journal felt "impelled" to explain that Pearson's report was "utterly false" and "an unconscionable smear...
...last week the magic kinship between Ike and the campaign crowds was hardly news, for the story could only be reported in round numbers, and the numbers rolled on from Peoria to Pittsburgh, from St. Paul to Portland. They rolled on just as they had in other years when the kinship was military, the numbers were millions, and the place names were London, Bizerte, Palermo, Salerno, Normandy and Bastogne. Probably no man in public life today has touched so many people in so many different ways as Dwight David Eisenhower. Yet, strangely, it is the sum total of Dwight Eisenhower...
...building-materials industry was also a mixed bag. Despite peak sales, Johns-Manville reported a drop in third-quarter income to $6,967,861 v. $7,178,801 a year ago. But the cementmakers were up: Consolidated Cement netted $584,400 v. $465,200 a year ago; General Portland Cement earned $2,441,500 compared with $2,086,000; Penn Dixie Cement rose 23% over last year's third quarter...