Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Goldwyn wrath boiled over six weeks ago. He had dickered with San Francisco's McNeil-Naify Co. (100 theaters in California and Nevada), to show Up in Arms (TIME, March 13) on a percentage of the gross basis, which would be highly profitable to Goldwyn. McNeil-Naify offered him a lower flat-rental basis, which would be highly profitable to them...
Covering the Waterfront. Hennecke's naval gunners manned waterside batteries bearing such names as Bromm, Yorck, Hamburg and Landemer. They served their guns so well that lean, bushy-browed Rear Admiral Morton L. Deyo took his whole division of ancient U.S. battleships (Nevada, Texas, Arkansas), four cruisers and seven destroyers to blast them...
Doris Duke Cromwell picked up where estranged Husband James H. R. ("Jimmy") Cromwell left off in their double-talking divorce marathon, filed a motion in Reno's court seeking to invalidate his New Jersey invalidation of her earlier Nevada divorce (TIME, May 22). She gave him 30 days in which to answer her new double-barreled charge: Cromwell's New Jersey court claim that she perpetrated a fraud on the Nevada court was "gross fraud" on his part...
...that morning that the Allied armada had begun to pour its fire onto the French coast, where brightly colored German ack-ack was streaking the morning sky. In the fleet were old ladies like the Arkansas, belching with twelve 12-in. guns, the Texas and the Nevada, each with ten 14-inchers; the British Warspite, veteran of Jutland, the new British Black Prince, the British monitor Erebus. Closer in shore stood the cruisers and, even closer, the destroyers - the whole great armada, spread out from horizon to horizon, try ing to batter down the Atlantic Wall. Overhead were...
...Nevada's grizzled, barrel-shaped Senator Pat McCarran went on the warpath last week for the umptieth time in his ten-year career of hatcheting the New Deal. (As far back as 1934 the maverick Pat used to hunt with Huey Long on the President's trail.) This time Pat McCarran was after the bald scalp of birdlike Attorney General Francis Biddle...