Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...miles of ski runs were bulldozed into shape. At Placid, famed Skimeister Hannes Schneider designed for Wh iteface a facelifting calculated to make it a ski heaven for tyro or expert. It was the same story at other ski centers-at Mont Tremblant in the Laurentians, Mt. Hood in Oregon, Mt. Baker in Washington, Alta in Utah...
Obviously, the true figure was far higher (example: in Oregon, only 45 cases were reported to the state health officer, but estimates based on school and job absenteeism put the number of flu victims at something over...
Most sparsely represented area of the country is the Rocky Mountain region, which, with 18 men, makes up less than half of one percent of the University total. With less than two percent representation, the Pacific coast states of California, Oregon, and Washington have also lost ground...
...eight weeks ago that Oregon's famed Crater Lake began its unlakelike burps. Two days later, a second dust-bubble broke from the surface. The third, two weeks later, formed a cloud 300 ft. wide. Tourists began to flock to the lake to watch. After the road was closed for the winter, in late October, the lake uttered yet one more eructation...
...might have a scenic volcano on their hands. Said Professor Howel Williams, leading volcanologist : "Renewed activity is not out of the question." Crater Lake was formed some 10,000 years ago, when 12,000-ft. Mt. Mazama blew its top. The eruption covered 5,000-odd square miles of Oregon with pumice six inches deep. Incandescent avalanches fried the Klamath Plateau for 25 miles around the vent. Seventeen cubic miles of rock were blasted to smithereens...