Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Amarillo Globe's overnight switch was duplicated by many another U.S. newspaper last week. From New York to Los Angeles, there had not been such an impressive near-unanimity of editorial reaction since Pearl Harbor. Editorialized the Fair Dealing Nashville Tennessean: ". . . face the issue now . . ." Agreed the Republican Portland Oregonian: ". . . no choice in honor or in duty...
...220acre farm near Lexington, Mass., Boston's Builder Joseph F. Kelly, who in three years has sold about 3,000 Cape Cod houses, is starting work on 400 ranch-type houses to sell for less than $10,000. In Portland, Ore., Builder Franklin T. White is frankly copying many features of Levitt's ranch-type house, adding some of his own-and selling it at a higher price ($8,500). In Philadelphia, Matthew McCloskey Jr. is at work building 522 Levitt-type houses, though they do not contain all the Levitt equipment...
With the FBI men shadowing him, Long hitchhiked 51 miles to Portland, snaked through heavy traffic and thick crowds to a house in the southeastern part of town, and came out with an oilcloth-covered package cached there years before by a prison pal. Next morning, Long unwrapped his package, took out a Reising submachine gun, and ambled into a branch of the First National Bank of Portland. He froze the bank's employees in their places by pumping four shots into the ceiling, forced a typist to stuff $9,716 into a paper bag, grabbed the loot...
...looked like a triumphant day's work for the FBI. But next day, Portland police got to wondering about where Wayne Long had got the Ford truck, discovered that it was owned by a Portland carpenter. The carpenter's body was found 25 miles outside of town; he had been shot through the head with a large caliber bullet. Wayne Long was charged with first degree murder...
...This case is really one for history," said the Portland Oregonian. "But not for the radio program, This Is Your...