About this episode
The episode explores the hustle and wartime activities in Portland, highlighting the rapid shipbuilding efforts and the unique experiences of the narrator.
Send us Fan Mail Homeless for a while in Portland. Wartime activities everywhere. Hustle here, hustle there, ships, airplanes, adrenaline all around. Trips around the area to see what it's all about stretched imagination to the limits. A whole town built in 110 days. Three shipyards are building ships as if they were cars on an assembly line. The world had never seen anything like it. I was there.
People in this episode
Host: James R. von Feldt
Topics covered
- homelessness
- wartime activities
- shipbuilding
- Portland
- adrenaline
- imagination
Keywords
- Portland
- shipyards
- Wartime
- adrenaline
- homelessness
- Columbia
- imagination
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: ACROSS THE COLUMBIA, A NEW FREEDOM
Places: Portland, Columbia
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