Word: chinook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about 40% less salmon jumped into cans than in 1926 or 1928. This was no surprise to salmon packers, who know that every third or fourth year, for some mysterious reason, the "run" of salmon dwindles sharply. Important are these members of the salmon family: King, or Chinook (Pacific coast, bright, arterial red flesh, averages 22 Ibs.); Red or Sockeye (Alaskan, dark red flesh, 6 Ibs.) ; Coho or Silver (Pacific and Alaskan, light red flesh, 7 Ibs.); Pink or Humpback (Alaskan, pinkish flesh, 4 Ibs.); Chum or Keta (Alaskan, colorless flesh, 8 pounds). For every King, silver or Chum salmon...
...Chinook Praised...
Have been reading about the Byrd Expedition and the naming of different mountain peaks after great men; why not name a mountain, a bay or an inlet after the great dog Chinook. He did a great thing in a dog's way. Chinook was brave until the last, in soul and action, even to die alone...
...Chinook was named for a wind-the dry warm northwesterly wind that is said to moderate the climate and "lick up" the snow from cold mountain slopes...
Vanished. Chinook, 12, famed brown husky lead-dog of Dog-Teamster Arthur T. Walden; from the Byrd expedition headquarters at Bay of Whales, Antarctica. His team, consisting of eight sons and grandsons, remained intact at headquarters. Chinook apparently crept away to die alone...