Word: puget
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there was no darkness in the mind of Tacoma's Mayor James Gifford New-begin. Remembering the Navy's statistic, and realizing that the Lexington was tied up at the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton, not 30 miles away, he wired the Navy Department in Washington and asked the loan of its power plant...
...eight 10,000-ton cruisers authorized by Congress in 1924 and now abuilding, six had been named-the Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Chester, Chicago, Houston, Augusta. Last week, Secretary Wilbur named a seventh, for obvious reasons, the Northampton. For the eighth ship, a building in Puget Sound, Pacific Coast Republicans urged the name Palo Alto. Iowans protested it should be the West Branch...
...head of Stone & Webster and Blodget (engineers, financiers) last week added a great block to his interstate power structure. He is chairman of the Engineers Public Service Co., a holding company for power manufacturers of the Middle West, Southwest, South and Middle Atlantic States. In the Northwest is the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., which supplies motive power to the Great Northern Railway. Last week Mr. Stone got control of Puget Sound and joined it to his Engineers Public Service Co., whose total assets thereby became...
...West, Oregon and Idaho played a bitter scoreless tie; while Stanford trounced Nevada 20-2; and Washington massed 40 points to Puget Sound's none...
Last week the Senate Committee on Commerce was wrangling talmudically over whether the deposit completed the sale. If not, certain Northwest interests, which fear the Dollars will deflect shipping away from the Columbia River and Puget Sound territory, may still have opportunity to bid on the boats. At any rate, a good proportion of boats on the Pacific will fly the U. S. flag...