Word: puget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week stay was apparently enough to convince at least some of the fish that the pool was their home stream. They swam back from the sea and up Puget Sound, guided by their mysterious homing instinct, then struggled through Government fish ladders into Lake Union. When they reached their alma mater, they made a sharp left turn and climbed a ladder into the pool...
...stock character in a rural comedy; killing a chicken was a new and horrible experience, and at first, he ate a comb of honey a day, until he found he could sell them for 55?. The pittance Dirks got from his 76 acres on Camano Island in Puget Sound would have sent most men back to the city, but he eked out his farming by kidding himself in a column ("City Bred Farmer") for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He signed off each column with the number of eggs he had collected that...
...Washington State Bonus Bureau announced that it had passed out $64 million in bonus checks to 191,560 World War II veterans. Among them: General Mark Clark, who claimed residence as owner of a summer home on Puget Sound's Camano Island. Because of length of service (four years overseas), General Clark got close to the state maximum...
...lost in Puget Sound...
Washington. Ten years after the collapse of "Galloping Gertie," their suspension bridge over the Puget Sound Narrows, the citizens of Tacoma dedicated another and bigger $18 million bridge of the same type, built on the old piers. Engineers boasted that it was 58 times stronger than the previous one. Nickname: "Sturdy Gertie...