Word: puget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 6,000 boats and 10,000 men were idle. More serious will be the strike if fishermen in Puget Sound and Alaska (where the salmon run later) do not come to terms. Then whole nations of Chinook, King and Sockeye salmon may live and die in a state of nature instead of filling 5,000,000 cases (240,000,000 cans) as they do in a normal year...
...demonstrators settled down to stay until they got results. Mothers with babes in arms got sleepy first, dropped off in the comfortable chairs. The rest lay down on the marble floor-hard and cold but better than Seattle streets with icy winds whistling up from Puget Sound...
...fish. Retaining live form and color in their ice blocks, the fish stare back with more than living fishiness. Seattle pays almost nothing to maintain the exhibit, charges no admission. The collection ranges from a shrimp to an 831-lb. sea lion. Some are common denizens of the Puget Sound region. Rarest are the snipe eel, lantern fish, lancet fish, sprakler, highbrow, and Willoughby's ragfish...
...with other Federal Council committee members in approving the use of contraceptives. Born in Idaho, son of a British circuit rider. Baptist Beaven went to Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.), studied for the ministry on the Pacific Coast while earning a living chopping wood and scraping barnacles from boats in Puget Sound. He studied at Rochester Theological Seminary on a scholarship was graduated in 1909 to become pastor of Rochester's Lake Avenue Baptist Church. This congregation he built up to 2,500 during his 20-year stay...
Finished Fisheries. In Alaskan waters and off the Maine Coast, in the Great Lakes and Puget Sound, operate 1,100 fishing boats flying the red diamond house flag of Booth Fisheries Co. Last week the captains of these vessels well might have half-masted their house flags. In Chicago Booth's directors had decided to place the company in voluntary bankruptcy...