Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First to Go. In Portland, Me., Rookie Fireman Lawrence Hasson heard his first alarm, raced for the brass pole, slid down to the first floor, broke bones in both feet...
Family & Early Years: Born in Portland, Ore. of Western pioneer stock (his grandfather came to Oregon for the Hudson's Bay Co. in the 1840s). He was christened James Douglas, but dropped James when he was a youth. Father was a carpenter and young McKay quit high school to help with the family income. He delivered papers, drove a butcher wagon, worked as an office boy for the Union Pacific, ran a small laundry. Worked his way through Oregon State, where he concentrated on agriculture. In 1920 went to work as auto salesman, within two years was sales manager...
Empty Stores. In an upper-level Cleveland suburb, 28 new houses completed last spring still stood vacant at $38,000, although the builder had sold others by trimming prices. In Detroit, housing permits this year were 40% fewer than last year, and Portland, Ore. Realtor Charles Paine reported that his home market was "just marking time." Sacramento, Calif, and southeastern Florida, where buyers were snapping up medium-priced homes as fast as they were built, were exceptions...
...chiefly due to their efforts, Walker said, that the West Coast has in recent years shown a great increase in the number of top-flight men it sends to Yale. Cities like Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver, have become strong "Yale towns," just as Minneapolis, Dayton, Cleveland, and Birmingham are strong "Harvard towns." "Even Boston," Walker added, "is sending more and more men here...
BERNARD K. FRANK Portland...