Word: chinook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those were the days when you could see the salmon fighting their way upstream, up rapids, over falls, around innumerable obstructions, until each found the stream where it was spawned, where now it would spawn and die. If you were lucky you could see a Chinook, the biggest salmon of them all, weighing maybe 50 lb., break through a shallow rapid like a torpedo. If you were still luckier you might catch one. Because the fish come up small streams, perhaps only six feet across, you had the feeling that the salmon were running right into your field, into your...
...Harbor. . .Settled in her first home with globe-girdling James, Romelle Schneider Roosevelt took and passed her driver's test at Bethesda, Md. . . . In the Columbia River waters, where Franklin D. Roosevelt failed to get a nibble in 1934, daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger hooked four Royal Chinook salmon. Young grandson "Buzzie" got one. . .In Toronto at the International Typewriting Marathon, typists who copied the complete works of Shakespeare in 1939, H. G. Wells's The Outline of History in 1940, last week typed The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...markets cut off by the war, abandoned farmlands that thirst for water. A propaganda picture, Hydro shows how Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams will irrigate barren fields, provide power for new defense industries, put jobless men to work. Best shots: the wild, glistening waters of the river undammed, royal Chinook salmon fighting their way upstream...
...without notice, packers cannot. Biggest Northern States packer is Astoria's William Leonard Thompson (no kin to the oceanographer), board chairman of C. R. P. A. But C. R. P. A. was famed for its salmon pack-Bristol Bay's Alaska Red, Columbia River's Fancy Chinook. So when the first albacore came to him in 1937, big, whispering, hard-hitting Bill Thompson, 60, sent them to California for processing and packing. California packers condemned twelve carloads. Roaring "To hell with that-we'll can 'em ourselves," Bill Thompson and his fellow Astorians...
Maney, born 47 years ago in Chinook, Mont. (then full of Cree Indians), has said so often that he spoke only Cree until he was twelve that he now believes it. Actually, the only strange sounds he uttered came out of a cornet he played...