Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ann Davison and .her husband Frank set out from England to sail around the world in 1949, their high adventure ended in sudden tragedy. A howling English Channel gale sent their old, 70-ft. ketch Reliance crashing on to the rocks off Portland Bill, and Davison was drowned. Ann told the story of that ill-fated trip in a bestselling book, Last Voyage (TIME, March 24, 1952), and resolved to sail alone on the first lap of the adventure she and her husband had planned together...
...addition to the ship, air, rail and truck routes the map shows for the materials needed for each issue, some paper is hauled by barge. TIME paper is transported down the Willamette River to Portland, transferred to an ocean-going steamer that moves through the Panama Canal, and finally hauled by barge up the Mississippi River to Chicago. TIME Inc. also owns a barge which carries paper from Bucksport. Me. for use in its other publications. This barge travels across inland waterways and up the Great Lakes to Chicago during the summer months, and coastwise to Philadelphia when the lakes...
...Lowell House senior leaped to his death from the fifth floor of a Portland, Maine, hotel early yesterday morning...
Hotch is believed to have left Cambridge for Portland Wednesday afternoon after refusing to tell his family why he was going. He took a room in the Hotel Falmouth and proceeded to remove all identification marks from his luggage and clothing. He overlooked only a cleaner's tag inside a suit coat which proved the immediate means of identification...
...HUGHES PORTLAND...