Word: bremerton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scrape up a $100,000 war chest in a furious campaign to keep Boeing alive in Seattle. The Aeronautical Mechanics Union Local 751 (which struck Boeing last year) was in the midst of a $25,000 advertising campaign; one ad sarcastically suggested that the Grand Coulee Dam, the Bremerton Navy Yard and the Hanford Atomic Works be moved to the Midwest too. Cried one Seattle businessman: "He just tossed us a fish. He's trying to give us a sleeping pill...
...PHILIP AMBUEL, M.D. Bremerton, Wash...
...mountain-minded man like William D. Hackett, Aconcagua, the 22,835-ft. peak which straddles the Argentine-Chilean border, was an irresistible challenge. Hackett had started climbing at twelve in the Olympic Range near Bremerton, Wash., had served with mountain infantry in World War II. In 1947, Lieut. Hackett joined a scientific expedition that scaled Alaska's Mt. McKinley. Last month 30-year-old Bill Hackett got a 45-day leave from his post at Fort Benning, Ga., and set his sights for Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere's highest peak...
...effect. One of the biggest street crowds in Seattle's history lined downtown sidewalks when he drove through. His speech in the 12,000-seat Memorial Stadium was made in the afternoon, drew only 6,000. But exuberant throngs of Navy Yard workers jammed a downtown intersection in Bremerton, across Puget Sound, when he appeared there. The crowd yelled, "Lay it on, Harry!" as he renewed his rawhiding of Congress. He cried: "They are going down to Philadelphia to tell you what a great Congress they have been. If you believe that, you are bigger suckers than I think...
...Bremerton, Wash...