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Word: chinook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between nations. ..." Lanky, ebullient Director d'Harnoncourt showed the difference in seven cunningly designed rooms: fine basketry and feather-weaving by the Pomos and Paiutes of California and Nevada; weaving and silver work by the Hopis, Navahos, Apaches of the Southwest; bone and tusk carving by the Chinook and other fishermen of the Northwest; magnificent work with buffalo and elk skins by the Sioux, Blackfoot and Crow tribes of the plains; beautifully carved wooden ware of the Eastern Iroquois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nuggets | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...Thomas Montgomery Howell who landed a record-breaking 936-lb. tuna off Nova Scotia?TIME, Aug. 27] please invite him to meet me next month at Chief Nestucca, Neel's Place, 90 miles west of Portland for some real fishing? Angling for the Royal Chinook Salmon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Letters, Sep. 3, 1934 | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

Last week 6,000 boats and 10,000 men were idle. More serious will be the strike if fishermen in Puget Sound and Alaska (where the salmon run later) do not come to terms. Then whole nations of Chinook, King and Sockeye salmon may live and die in a state of nature instead of filling 5,000,000 cases (240,000,000 cans) as they do in a normal year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Salmon Strike | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

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