Word: puget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back to the shore, but Admiral Reeves is taking no chances. Just as von Hindenburg prepared for his great victories against the Russians in 1914-15 by painstakingly studying the topography of the Masurian swamps, so Admiral Reeves has long concentrated on the "triangular strategic area" of Hawaii-Puget Sound-Panama...
...LAST PIONEERS - Melvin Levy - King ($2.50). Adventures of a Russian Jew against the background of a thinly-disguised seaport on Puget Sound...
THERE have been few expeditions of discovery that have so captured the interest of a whole nation and of scientific men all over the world as has the expedition of Lewis and Clark, the first white men to travel overland from St. Lewis to Puget Sound. Many books have been written about that trip; the journals of the two leaders have been published and reprinted many times; and a few authors have attempted to set down a brief account of the life of the leader of the expedition. Of these Thomas Jefferson has written by far the best account...
...Assistant Secretary of the Navy's approval for each & every contract. Also announced last week was the Navy's 16-ship building program in its own yards. Brooklyn and Philadelphia each got a light cruiser order. Two destroyers each were to be built at Boston. Philadelphia, Norfolk, Puget Sound and Mare Island. Two gunboats and two submarines completed the construction list...
...General Italo Balbo's 24 seaplanes had been not Italian but Japanese; if they had flown not across the Atlantic but eastward across the Pacific; if they had landed for a -goodwill" visit not at Chicago's lakefront but in Seattle's Puget Sound - they would have received a punctiliously polite welcome. But the average U. S. citizen would have felt about the same as the average Frenchman felt last month when Balbo's armada came roaring across the Alps out of Italy to blacken the skies of France. Last week France's Air Ministry...