Word: unga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bedrolls and seeps through tarpaulin. The nights are passed in wet chill and discomfort and the days in mud and filth that the Marines, who have been too busy fighting, have not had time to clean up. The Marines deal with filth on their clothes and bodies in the Unga River, which runs miraculously swift and clear through the occupied area. The swim in the Unga is one of the daily necessities on Guadalcanal. Many of the men drive mud-covered jeeps and trucks into the shallow, pebbly stream and wash themselves, vehicles and clothes all at one session...
Fortnight ago the Columbia River Packers Association motor ship Unga put out from Astoria, Ore. to look for albacore tuna. Next day, 40 miles out into the Pacific from Oregon's Cascade Head, the Unga sighted the year's first tuna, touched off a new season for one of Oregon's newest industries...