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Consolidated Freightways (CF) was an American multinational less-than-truckload (LTL) freight service and logistics company founded on April 1, 1929, in Portland, Oregon, and later relocated to Vancouver, Washington. Affectionately known as "CornFlakes", Consolidated Freightways was also the founder of the Freightliner line of heavy trucks, now ...
Linda Holladay (1879–1944), who married Ben Holladay Dorcy (1869–1926), the commanding officer of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division who was a son of John Chipman Dorcy, in 1899. Holladay died in Portland, Oregon, on July 8, 1887, [7] and is buried at Mount Calvary Cemetery in that city. [2]
A Business Express Airlines Avro RJ70. Piper PA-31 Navajo - Original Business Express fleet when the company was founded from Atlantic Air; Beechcraft Model 99 - Retired in 1986 shortly after Beech 1900 deliveries began. A Business Express Shorts 360 Beechcraft 1900 - Two acquired in buy-out of Mall Airways in September 1989. (N15394 AND N15503 ...
The Westside Express Service ( WES) is a commuter rail line in the U.S. state of Oregon serving parts of Washington and Clackamas counties in the Portland metropolitan area. Owned by TriMet and operated by Portland & Western Railroad (P&W), the line is 14.7 miles (23.7 km) long and travels north–south from Beaverton to Wilsonville along a ...
Con-way's heritage dated from 1929, when industry pioneer Leland James founded an intercity trucking company in Portland, Oregon.Initially named Consolidated Truck Lines, the company grew from a one-truck operation into one of the largest long-haul carriers in the United States by the early 1980s, and became one of the few freight transportation firms to originate in the West and successfully ...
The earliest newspaper in Oregon was the Oregon Spectator, published in Oregon City from 1846, by a press association headed by George Abernethy. This was joined in November 1850 by the Milwaukie Western Star and two partisan papers – the Whig Oregonian, published in Portland beginning on December 4, 1850, and the Democratic Statesman, launched in Oregon City in March 1851.
The Lebanon Express was a weekly newspaper in Lebanon, Oregon. It was owned by Lee Enterprises. The paper ceased publication in January 2023. History. Founded on March 5, 1887, the paper published every Wednesday. The paper published its final edition on Jan. 18, 2023 and rolled coverage of the area into The Albany Democrat-Herald.
6. Portland General Electric. 7. Columbia Sportswear. 8. Northwest Natural Gas. This is a list of companies based in Oregon. Oregon is the ninth largest by area and the 27th most populous of the 50 United States. The gross domestic product (GDP) of Oregon in 2010 was $168.6 billion; it is the United States's 26th wealthiest state by GDP.