Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Warren C. Chapman (Nevada City, Calif.), attacking a strongly held building, called for artillery fire at a point only 75 yards from his own men. Five direct hits landed on the place. Said Chapman: "When the smoke cleared, the building wasn't there any more...
Chief Frank Terwilliger ("only don't call me Frank"), in contrast to his confrere, is a real Westerner, claiming Lake Tahoe, Nevada, as his home address. Prospector, gold miner, Holywood stunt man, forest ranger--he has at one time or another been all of these. Instead of working his way through college by hashing, selling clothes, or firing furnaces aces, he worked his way through two years at Nevada School of Mines by mining gold and silver at Carson City and Virginia City. After this he gave prospecting a try, trudging through various parts of Arizona, New Mexico Colorado, California...
Bing Crosby, after five weeks on his Nevada ranch, made an unorthodox appearance at the microphone...
James H. R. Cromwell, having sued Doris Duke for divorce in New Jersey and having been sued in return in Nevada, got an injunction forbidding her temporarily to go on with her suit, which was scheduled to come up in court this week...
...charged that she had moved to Reno to "perpetrate a fraud on the New Jersey and Nevada courts"-that is, not to become a Nevadan but just to become an exwife...