Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note of thanks for allowing them to withdraw from the capitalist world and enter the Soviet Union. The occasion was the 25th anniversary of the country's former independence. Tannu Tuva (pop. 65,000) is a Mongolian farming, mining and cattle raising area about the size of Nevada, between Siberia and Outer Mongolia. Its assumption to Russia was a fact unknown to the rest of the world until it read the names of Tuvinian delegates on the election lists to the Supreme Soviet last October...
...usual he complied with all the laws he could find. He carefully incorporated his enterprise under Nevada statutes as the Sevenseas Trading & Steamship Co. In deference to sound sanitation practices he had 150 gleaming new toilets installed aboard the ship. Finally he had the white, neon-decorated floating casino towed 7.8 miles to sea-well past anybody's three-mile limit...
...holdouts: New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maine. Eight other states-Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mississippi, Iowa, Oklahoma, Nevada, Montana and California-do not give equivalency diplomas, but let students take equivalency tests for courses they have missed...
Congress was finally forced to give in to the silver-loving Congressmen, led by Nevada's Pat McCarran. They had been able to hold up the Treasury-Post Office appropriations bill, threatening the pay of 552,000 federal employes. Now the Treasury can again sell silver from its vast hoard...
...battleships Nevada and Arkansas, and the less-proud Japanese relic Nagatoa, all with blackened paint, twisted upper works, and assorted injuries. Most remarkable, perhaps, was a three-foot dent in the armored afterdeck of the Nevada, as though a cosmic giant had set his boot there...