Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then Nevada's silver-haired, rancorous Pat McCarran, spokesman for the silver bloc, opened a filibuster against an Administration bill to permit the sale of Government-owned silver for commercial use at less than the pegged price. One day Pat McCarran read drowsily for four hours from ancient RFC hearings. His voice began to crack; while the opposition was napping, Pat McCarran gained unanimous consent for a clerk to continue the reading. The clerk droned on, filling up 15 pages of the Congressional Record, at $55 a page...
...suffered at Pearl Harbor the worst defeat in its history was now plain. Not only had the Arizona been sunk, as Navy Secretary Knox acknowledged after a quick survey of the Pearl Harbor wreckage 52 weeks ago. The Oklahoma was perhaps beyond salvaging. The California, West Virginia and Nevada were either badly damaged or aground. (A ship in the bottom of a shallow harbor can be floated.) The other three battleships in Pearl Harbor last Dec, 7, the Tennessee, the Maryland and the Pacific Fleet flagship Pennsylvania, were put out of action temporarily...
...other battleships have been raised. The slightly damaged Pennsylvania, Maryland and Tennessee went back with the fleet months ago. So did the three cruisers, the seaplane tender and repair ship. The California, Nevada and West Virginia have been, or are being, repaired and outfitted with modern guns and machines. Even the destroyer Shaw, which did not seem to be worth 35?, was "sewed" together and sent to the U.S. mainland, where it was rebuilt. For the most remarkable salvage job in naval engineering history the U.S. could thank Captain Homer N. Wallin and the thousands of naval and civilian workers...
Explained McGraw-Hill's Executive Vice President James S. Thompson: "We are in a war of science. . . . The courses of study draw from every technological field. The classrooms include factory storerooms . . . corners of airplane hangars . . . 'toughening camps' high in the Sierra Nevada, training ships at sea. The students number millions...
...Chapultepec, 1847, where Winfield Scott took Mexico City and won New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah and part of Colorado from Mexico. Casualties were relatively severe...