Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with a price war in Portland, Ore., the Safeway chain last week hit upon a surefire way to fight competitors selling coffee and cigarettes at cut rates. "Does your P.T.A., church, lodge, club, or charity need money for Christmas?" asked Safeway in five-column newspaper ads. "Here is your chance to make easy money." Safeway offered to pay $1.57 a carton for cigarettes, which could be bought at $1.45 at price-cutting stores, and 83? a Ib. for coffee, which the price cutters sold...
After the 45 Safeway stores in the Portland area repurchased "large quantities of cigarettes and coffee," the war ended as competitors raised their prices to Safeway's levels...
...Renoir's Venus Victorieuse: 40 million Frenchmen have read, with relief, that the monstrosity pictured in TIME, Oct. 12, is now safely in the good city of Portland, Ore. We, the people of France, do not object to gay, young "bronze creatures" romping around our lawns, as long as they are graceful and lithe of limb. But the heavy, rotund and adipose lady was a clear case for a severe reducing diet and Turkish baths...
BERNARD K. FRANK Portland...
...make new teachers feel at home, Portland, Ore. has a special welcoming program. A housing office provides the newcomers with drivers and cars to help them hunt apartments; the P.T.A. throws parties for them and so do members of the school board. Meanwhile, Minneapolis has hit upon another device for making the profession seem attractive: an "Apple for the Teacher Day," on which all 2,500 women teachers receive - not an apple -but an orchid...