Word: puget
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seattle, an order to recondition three mothball Victory ships was the biggest contract Puget Sound shipbuilders had seen in several years. Shipyard employment has dropped from a wartime peak of 90,000 in Seattle alone to a handful of 2,600 workers in the whole state of Washington. Along the Gulf Coast, Pascagoula's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. was the only yard with new construction under way last week. And Ingalls is building just one ship: an experimental model of a highspeed (18½ knots) cargo steamer which the Maritime Board hopes to use as a prototype for future cargo...
Reforestation was now a well-developed technique. Big companies like Weyerhaeuser collected tons of fir seed, cleaned it with special machinery and planted it as carefully as farmers planting cabbage. The industry made pulp, plywood and innumerable new products. But like Puget Sound's fleet of salmon trollers and purse seiners, it was tapping an exhaustible commodity-neither industry could expand beyond certain rigid limits without inviting disaster...
...year Bon Marche department store, Kentucky-born Rex Liebert Allison, 39, was afraid that he wasn't getting his share of customers from the city's fast-growing population. Hemmed in on the south by its industrial district and on the east & west by Lake Washington and Puget Sound, Seattle was moving north, away from the old shopping area...