Word: montes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roommate Chesley and I started collecting license plates in 1928 and before we got through we had all the states. We struck up quite an acquaintance with a girl in the Motor Vehicle Department in Miles, Mont., to whom we had written for a sample plate. Most states were quite generous. We told them we were making a study of the style and type of license plate for a college course. Tennessee sent us a pair of perfectly good plates. Some guy snitched them and used them when he went home for the summer...
...eruption blew down 150 sq. mi. of timber worth about $200 million, caused an estimated $222 million in damage to wheat, alfalfa and other crops as far east as Missoula, Mont., and buried 5,900 miles of roads under ash. Clearing them could cost another $200 million. The blast created a 20-mile log jam along the Columbia River that blocked shipping between Longview, Wash., and Astoria, Ore. Volcanic mud carried by the river choked the harbor of Portland. Officials estimated that the ports would lose $5 million a day until dredges could clear a new channel through the silt...