Word: puget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that a shortage existed. Bureau agents found such concentrations in Florida's "panhandle" district, in the Crane Lake area of Illinois, along Missouri's Sheridan River. Southern California's flight, usually 40 miles wide, was ten miles last year. Little affected by Drought were areas on Puget Sound, the Columbia River, the Susquehanna flats, and Long Island. Last year's curtailed season, believed to have reduced the kill from nearly 18 to seven million birds, may result in a longer season next autumn, but this is doubtful. This year the Department of Agriculture plans to purchase...
Captain Benyaurd Bourne Wygant, U.S.N., professor of Naval Science and Tactics, has just been ordered by the Bureau of Navigation of the Navy Department to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Washington, to assume command of the U. S. S. Colorado, which is undergoing a general overhauling. Further orders from the Bureau of Navigation reveal that Captain Adolphus Watson, U.S.N., will relieve Captain Wygant of his duties with the Harvard Naval R. O. T. C. Unit...
...operates its own electric power and light plants, its own street railway system. For 20 years James Delmage Ross, onetime Yukon gold rusher, has served as Superintendent of City Light. A stout advocate of public ownership, he has fought many a gaudy fight with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He has built up a political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running as the "businessman's candidate" in 1928, made that same...
...nephew, Edwin Sibley Webster Jr., 31, was also made a partner. This young man began his career slowly. After graduating from Harvard in 1923 and from Harvard Business School in 1925, he went to work for his father in Stone & Webster, Inc., first on a construction job in Puget Sound, then on a Florida bus line, then with a power company in Virginia. From those occupations he went to Boston to be a messenger boy in the Stone & Webster Building for a while, then entered the legal department of the firm. He was a vice president when he resigned last...
...whole Northwest claims Brobdingnagian Lumberjack Paul Bunyan, mightiest of loggers, and his blue ox Babe. Together they dug Puget Sound in less than three weeks, using a glacier as a scoop. Paul Bunyan invented the double-bladed ax so that he could fell a tree on every backswing. His grindstone, which he made himself, "was so large that every time it made a single revolution it was pay day." His achievements and appetites were in proportion...