Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...From the Portland Oregonian...
Private Lives. In Portland, Ore., the state liquor commission reported that most small-town Oregonians buy their liquor in other towns than their own, suggested possible explanations: the buyer does not want to be seen buying liquor by 1) other members of his church congregation, 2) his creditors, 3) friends who might stop by for a drink...
BERNARD K. FRANK Portland...
...Face of the Future. In Portland, Me., when Robert B . Boyle told the court he was going to be married in five days, Judge Edmund P. Mahoney suspended Boyle's $3 fine for traffic violation with the comment: "You will probably need all your spare money...
Extra, Extra. All over, newspaper circulations soared. In Dallas, the Times-Herald (circ. 140,534) doubled its street sales in one afternoon. Portland's Oregon Journal (circ. 190,844) put out a daily extra, increased its sales by 35,000 copies for the week. (The Journal's copy desk also invented a more convenient headline word to describe the North Korean Communists: KO-REDS.) Though newspapers quickly took on their old wartime look with Page One photos of General MacArthur, B-29s and tanks, and the first casualty lists, most of the U.S. press followed Harry Truman...