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Under the proposed deal, one of the five U.S. companies, probably the Puget Sound Power & Light Co., would build the dam, turn it over to Canada free. In return, Puget Sound would get an 800,000-kw. share of the new power produced in the U.S. (a portion of which it would resell to the other companies), leaving 440,000 kw. for the federal-power network. Total cost to the company for the Mica Creek dam: $700 million, which it would pay off at the rate of $14 million annually for 50 years through the sale of low-cost power...
...weather-beaten fishing towns from Anacortes, Wash. to New Westminster, B.C., fishermen last week toasted each other in Slovenian, Norwegian and English. Not for 41 years had such hordes of salmon swarmed through Puget Sound on their way to their spawning grounds far up British Columbia's Fraser River...
Cover-Up. Paper-thin. 3/4-in.-wide strips of wood with adhesive backing for finishing off edges of plywood and other woods were introduced by Seattle's Puget Modern, Inc. Called "Wood Tape.'' the wood strips come in fir, mahogany, birch, walnut and oak, are applied by thumb pressure. Price...
Group No. 2, consisting of two local public-utility districts, two municipal outfits (Seattle and Tacoma) and the privately owned Puget Sound Power & Light Co., was formed by Seattle City Light's Superintendent Paul Raver. As longtime head of the giant Bonneville Power Administration, Raver was for years the top federal power exponent in the Northwest...
...Thomas to content themselves with broad policy and leave the details to the admirals. Since, as every Pentagonian knows, broad policy is frequently determined by details, Anderson considered that he was getting a well-known form of Pentagon runaround. Wallin was relieved of his command and transferred to the Puget Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton, Wash...