Many a U.S. city, its population and pocketbook swollen by war work, has worried itself sick over an inevitable postwar collapse. Last week the city fathers of Portland, Ore. did something about it.
Hired, for a fancy $100,000 fee, was New York's famed Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who will take a staff to Portland, make a 60-day survey, turn in recommendations for postwar public works. Best estimate is that war's end will throw 90,000 Portlanders out of work.
Planner Moses' job will be to devise enough parks, roadways, public improvements to keep the idle busy.
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