Word: pullmans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coolidge would have loved the hard bargain. In any event, that portrait could not be moved and there was not another one around. The official portrait was about all that was left of the Coolidge days, save a couple of pieces of undistinguished cherry bedroom furniture and an old Pullman menu from a trip on the Chicago & North Western Railway listing two broiled lamb chops at 80?, Coolidge's kind of fare. The White House curator sent off to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass., for another portrait of Coolidge. It was painted by Frank O. Salisbury...
N.U.C. students register in one of the consortium's cooperating local colleges. The TV programs are beamed from Maryland to local stations or cable systems serving Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, Chattanooga, Indianapolis, New York City, Pullman, Wash., State College, Pa., Moscow, Idaho, as well as Maryland, Oregon and Vermont. TV-viewing students will get credits and degrees from the college nearest them; those enrollees not served by a local college have to register with the extension division of the University of Maryland...
Probably the most lasting and pervasive effect of the eruption, outside the immediate area of Mount St. Helens, will be the monumental nuisance of the cleanup. Volcanic ash fell in amounts estimated at eight tons per acre in the Moscow-Pullman area of Idaho, 300 miles from Mount St. Helens, and 350 Ibs. per acre in southwestern Montana, roughly 400 miles away. The fine, gritty ash drifted into everything: aircraft engines, sewage and water treatment plants, tractor gears, washing machines. One official at Washington State University warned homemakers to use only detergents when washing clothes because soap might mix with...
...Pullman (pop. 21,000), students from Washington State University jammed the Barley and Hops tavern for "eruption specials," $1 pitchers of beer. In Yakima, which was coated with half an inch of dust, the owner of an auto body shop jokingly put ash on sale for 500 per gal. but got no takers. Hosing or shoveling the ash was only a slightly more effective way of getting rid of it. Complained Yakima Mayor Betty Edmondson: "Wet ash turns into a slurry that is just about impossible to shovel...