Word: nevadans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finish-post was passed, Jockey Key Pittman of Nevada neatly unhorsed himself with the flat pronouncement that he did not expect Franklin Roosevelt to proclaim defined combat areas (next day the President did). Nothing dashed by this tumble, the lean Nevadan mounted again on the most improbably romantic idea of the week: that U. S. ships are to be provided with distinctive markings for each side: that the Germans would be advised of the markings on one side, while the Allies would be told of the other. The markings, said Mr. Pittman gravely, would be visible for five miles. Further...
...Black inquiry came the first serious move to centralize regulation of aviation. Silvery Nevadan Pat McCarran wrote a Senate bill to place full control of the industry with the I.C.C. Year later, in the House, California's Clarence Lea offered a bill to create an independent Government bureau for aviation. Until the last Congress, neither bill had been able to make much headway. Both the Post Office Department and the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Air Commerce stood to lose firm political footholds if the centralization move succeeded. But this year the proposals were revived, promptly...
Western Nevada can and does boast of its climate. Many a Nevadan refers to it as the "champagne climate" (exhilarating...