Word: puget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high grade iron ore and limestone, two of the essentials for making iron or steel, where the material can be quarried and placed on belts that take it directly to the vessel and then the limestone and iron ore can be taken by water to any point on Puget Sound, and at all times in protected water. Compare this with the conditions in Minnesota, for example, where they have to mine the ore, then take it by rail to the docks, load it into the ore carriers, then unload at the foot of the lakes, then ship by rail...
...Captain Austin Eugene Lathrop, a building contractor turned shipmaster, sailed to Alaska from Puget Sound in the small steam schooner L. J. Perry. He sailed right into the Klondike gold rush. Instead of turning to pick & pan, however, Cap Lathrop stuck to his bridge and toted prospectors and their pokes. Nowadays, in rich Central Alaska, stout, furrowed, 73-year-old Cap Lathrop is the head man. He owns a big salmon cannery, a bank, a coal mine, an airplane hangar, three cinemas, two newspapers, a general store, apartment houses, and is a member of the Board of Regents of University...
...beckoning September day four years ago, sandy-haired, 21-year-old Dwight Long, restless son of a Seattle builder, chucked his junior studies at the University of Washington and pointed his snug, white, 32-foot ketch Idle Hour out of Puget Sound. Before him lay the glamorous uncertainty of the western horizon; behind, Foulweather Bluff and the fouler prospects of graduating into a depression. One afternoon last week, with 35,000 miles in her wake and her bows scoured with the spray of more than seven seas. Idle Hour breezed in from the blue Atlantic and hove to off Manhattan...
...alone, electric storms had started 200 fires in northern Idaho and western Montana. Klamath, Trinity, Siskiyou and Columbia National Forests were all on fire. Smoke hung over the high Sierras as far as Reno. Nev. It blinded forest lookouts, prevented them from spotting new outbreaks. Ships in Puget Sound used fog horns as the pall from the biggest fire of all, the worst in British Columbia's history, swept unchecked over 100,000 acres of Vancouver Island. Millions of feet of felled timber were consumed as well as standing trees. Brick-dry, the forests virtually exploded...
...snow-mantled Olympic Mountains were formed, on the peninsula between Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean, is not precisely recorded. In 1909 President Theodore Roosevelt had Mount Olympus (8,150 ft.) and some 800,000 acres around it set aside as a national "monument," a refuge for a majestic strain of elk which roamed there, thereafter called Roosevelt...