Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gainfully Employed. In Portland, Ore., after he had filed for unemployment compensation, then been sent to jail for drunkenness and assigned to outside work, Frank Crosby, 50, discovered that he could slip away Wednesdays to the insurance office just the same, managed to collect $75 in unemployment compensation before he was caught...
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...Hungarian immigrant; Airman Harry M. Benjamin Jr., 22, of Worthington, Minn., who joined the Air Force because "I'll always have a place to sleep and plenty to eat"; Airman John W. Thompson III, 23, former Orange, Va. meatcutter; and Airman Daniel C. Schmidt, 22, of Portland, Ore., who wrote home from a Chinese prison asking whether his baby was a boy or a girl (it's a boy, now 20 months...
Throughout Oregon last week, milk prices were tumbling. In Salem, housewives jammed into the Nameless Food Market for milk at 10? a quart; a store on Portland's east side sold milk for 15? a quart; grocery chains and supermarkets chopped their prices 2? a quart all along the line. The cause of the big drop was an overwhelming revolt of Oregon voters against the state's 21-year-old Milk Control Law, which set strict production and distribution quotas, minimum wholesale and retail prices. The man responsible: a modest farmer named Elmer Deetz, who runs...
...Multnomah County, Mrs. Edith Green, 44, who was named Oregon's "outstanding girl" 28 years ago, lived up to her early promise. She defeated Republican Tom McCall, who had, in turn, won over G.O.P. Incumbent Homer Angell in the primary election. Mrs. Green, a trailer-court operator, got Portland's labor vote, despite the fact that McCall stressed his own union membership (in the television and radio artists' union...