Word: nevada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week readjustment came with a slash that brought copper to 10¾? per Ib., the lowest since 1902. Few companies can make money with copper at this level; hence production is likely to dwindle down to demand. Even low-cost producers will not find 10¾? a pleasant level. Nevada Consolidated Copper Co., one of the highest-cost producers, revealed that during the second quarter its copper cost 10.28?, leaving a margin of profit which tends to be academic...
...following 22 States and the District of Columbia no public school moppet need spend a penny for books in the grade schools: Arizona, California, Delaware, Maine, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Kentucky, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming...
...Marion Nevada Talley, Kansas farmerette, onetime soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, went to Manhattan to make a series of phonograph records. Said she: "I never knew just what made me leave the grand opera stage. ... I couldn't say that I'll never go back. . . . You know, it's a woman's privilege...
...used to be that deaf children, like idiots, were considered useless to the community and allowed to die. For less than 300 years has there been any systematic effort to educate them. In the U. S. every state except Delaware, New Hampshire, Nevada and Wyoming, supports schools for the deaf. Those four states send their deaf children at public expense to schools in other states. Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, West Virginia and Vermont have compulsory school attendance laws for deaf children...
...half-year there were 9,773 licensed and identified aircraft in the U. S., 13,041 licensed pilots, 8,843 mechanics. California has the largest number of each: 1,275 planes, 2,515 pilots, 1,658 mechanics. New York is second with 1,148 planes, 682 pilots, 874 mechanics. Nevada foots the list of states with ten planes and 17 pilots, but has 27 airports...