Word: steelhead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conservationist's Nightmare. The unexpected decision shocked the combine, which had spent $2,500,000 planning its smaller dams. And it enraged some 200,-ooo politically potent sports fishermen throughout the Northwest. The dams that industrialized the Northwest have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades...
Seattle has reported such leading conversational subjects as "steelhead trout running at Government locks," a judge's criticism of the brevity of drum-majorettes' costumes, and the tests of a new plane at Boeing Field. The federal tax paid by numbers racketeers was the leading subject in Cleveland one week, and Miami was recently discussing the record racing season at Hialeah. The talk in Oklahoma one week was the transfer of the 45th Infantry Division from Japan to Korea. Dallas discussed the tidelands oil fight and fretted over dust storms, and New Orleans deplored the poor weather...