Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight-hour day. But others were more significant, indicated that Labor might be getting its back up. Harshly condemned for "inhuman working conditions" and referred to as "a $700.- 000,000 outrage" was Six Companies, Inc., builder of the Hoover Dam where twelve workers collapsed and died in the Nevada heat last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). And although the convention, encouraged by Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, turned its back on a Federal Dole, one Labor measure advocated by the delegates seemed certain of gaining the ear of Congress this winter...
...Nevada hydrocyanic gas is used to execute convicts...
...Nevada, Oregon, Washington...
...story has to do with a group of rich young parlor Communists who want to go to Russia. They do not get there, but the father of one sends them to an abandoned mine in Nevada, where silver is unexpectedly discovered. Most of them then get married and return to the fold of what Messrs. Hammerstein & Schwab would have you know as Good Old Capitalism. One excursion into the office of a psychoanalyst provides merriment...
...days)?Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York (except Long Island), Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming. Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Their old season, also California's, was Oct. iDec. 31 (92 days...