Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marion Hollins, onetime U. S. women's golf champion, went to Agua Caliente, Mexico, where the racehorse Nevada Queen had been attracting attention on the track, bought the horse from its breeder, Wild Horse Charlie Farrell...
...Committee on Conservation of Wild Life Resources, made their first report to fellow-Senators. They announced that the U. S. must do more if its animals are to be kept from extinction. The Senators were Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut (chairman), Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, Key Pittman of Nevada, Charles Linza McNary of Oregon, Peter Norbeck of South Dakota. After finishing a trip into Midwest and Western States and along the Canadian border, they announced that two more years would be necessary before they could become completely wise about conservation...
...conspicuous change was in the ranks of licensed pilots-an increase of 33% from 10,215 to 15,280. Of these, 385 are women of whom 35 have transport licenses. As it did last year California leads the pilot list with 2,852; New York is second, 1,641; Nevada last, 13. Of 1,088 gliders and 178 glider pilots, California had most-235 craft, 80 pilots. New York passed California with total aircraft of 1,193 to California's 1,175. Nevada was last with eleven; but has 25 airports. The total number of airports and landing fields...
...story centers around the married life of Bill and his wife, who run a hotel, the Calivada, on the boundary line of California and Nevada. To the hotel come numerous ladies to remain for three months in the Nevada wing to secure divorces from their husbands. Louise Dresser is the wife who manages the hotel, while Lightnin' loafs and in his simple way ingratiates himself with the guests. Promoters of a fake stock company appear on the scene and try to buy the hotel in exchange for stock. "Mother" (the wife) is all in favor of the idea, but Lightnin...
...Washington the Senate's subcommittee on trade with China prepared to release this week its recommendation for a silver loan to China. Chairman of the subcommittee is Senator Key Pittman of Nevada, famed "silver state." China is the only great power with currency on the "silver standard," and last week the Shanghai dollar (nominally worth 50 ?) continued its decline to a new low-for-all-time...