Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went home to his old house on Orne St. His horse was shod. Joe could hear it galloping through the silent streets of North Attleboro, through old Boston, across Massachusetts, across Connecticut and New York, across Illinois, across Missouri, across Nevada and California, galloping up the coast to Washington...
Meanwhile full winter descended, without warning, on the Rocky Mountain states. It began snowing in Utah, Nevada and Montana, and the worst blizzard in a decade roared down on Colorado. Hunters were trapped, cars stalled, trains delayed and the intermountain sugar-beet harvest was almost completely disrupted...
...Miller, political reporter for this issue, had his preliminary experience in University of Nevada '38, with the United Press and the First Marines on Guadalcanal and with Georgie Patton in Germany...
...Nevada. Republican George W. Malone does much of his campaign touring by airplane, drops in on wool ranchers. The ranchers like him and they hate the OPA. But Representative Berkeley Lloyd Bunker rides Senator Pat McCarran's Democratic machine and is strong in the cities. Dopesters' odds: 8-to-5 on Berkeley Bunker...
Last May. Still moving on and up Heidt bought the Nevada Biltmore Hotel in Las Vegas for $500,000. Like most Las Vegas hotels, it had hot & cold gambling. Heidt lost more than $6,000 a night until he discovered that he was playing against loaded dice and marked cards (he now displays them in his home labeled: "We learned the hard way"). Then he hired a professional to run the casino, and the losses stopped...