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Then came Total Underground. The new system was developed last year by Puget Sound Power & Light Co., with a boost from the Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co. It buries everything, including transformers, which are submerged in deep, grate-covered pits. Thanks to newly developed, highly insulated coverings, the cables can be dropped into machine-dug trenches without the cumbersome metal casings of previous systems. And the telephone company can put its lines in the same trench, cutting costs even further...
Even with these savings, Total Underground still costs about $160 extra a lot. But Puget persuaded the FHA that the beauty of a wireless front lawn increased the value of the average subdivisions plot by $200. As a result, the FHA upped its assessments of houses so serviced, allowing local banks to offer proportionately increased FHA-guaranteed mortgages to prospective homeowners. Thus the homeowner can spread the increased cost of his mortgage over 20 years...
...Petroleum, which is building huge new towns near Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, got 73% of its $27.7 million revenue from realty last year. Land development and brokerage accounted for 14% of its $25 million gross for the venerable West Coast lumber firm of Pope & Talbot. Puget Sound Power & Light Co. realized 10% of its net income from such realty operations as an industrial park, 515 acres for homes, a hotel and a shopping center...
With Tomatoes & Bacon. Today, Washington game officials plant 350,000 steelhead each year in Barnaby Slough, a well-hidden pool 50 miles up the Skagit from Puget Sound. Protected by wardens with shotguns from natural predators (mink, otter, kingfishers, mergansers), fattened on fish meal, they are released at the age of a year. The results are astonishing. This year, Washington fishermen will catch upwards of 225,000 steelheads compared...
...only one humanities course, a three-year smattering of history, literature and art. School begins in August, allowing time for a ten-week "work term" in the win ter. Last week, while most U.S. college students were home for Christmas, Webb freshmen worked as ship fitters in yards from Puget Sound to Newport News. Sophomores were off at sea as grease monkeys on freighters; upperclassmen were apprenticed to firms of naval architects and marine engineers. "We want them to clean bilges and stand watches," says Alexander. "These men are all headed for management jobs and their training allows them...