Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasion for Monsignor Ready's remarks was a Senate committee hearing on a bill introduced by Nevada's Pat McCarran to exempt about half the Washington religious property recently returned to the tax rolls. The McCarran bill would exempt only schools and churches, leaving other educational and religious institutions a target for taxes...
When war came in 1917, Ghormley was first lieutenant of the battleship Nevada. He was aide and flag lieutenant in Battleship Force One when Washington called him ashore, gave him a job in the Naval Overseas Transportation Service. In a complicated job without glory, Old Hookem was tagged for tough administrative and diplomatic jobs...
...Secretary of the General Board and in the Bureau of Naval Operations, to decide to settle there with his wife and three children (a daughter and two sons, the youngest now prepping for Annapolis). When his time came for flag rank he was made skipper of the old Nevada. From then on he wore the broad stripe of Admiral's rank as he settled down in the Navy's top drawer-Naval War College, operations officer to the CINCUS (Admiral A. J. Hepburn), Director of War Plans, observer in London (with the temporary rank of vice admiral...
...Facts. The principal argument against Henry Kaiser's big idea (with which few citizens disagreed in principle) was the raw-material shortage. Resourceful Henry Kaiser might use the chrome in California soil, tin from Nevada, but he did not convince WPB of his ability to get all his needed metals. Fact is that part of the Army's combat-plane program is already lagging for lack of raw materials. Donald Nelson promised Kaiser "plenty of action." if-a big "if"-it can be proved that the Kaiser dream will not cut into the combat-plane program...
...little encouragement, a little help. Englebright's home-town paper, the Nevada City (pop. 2,445) Nugget, gave him editorial support. The truck drivers and yard men at his Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. offered to spend their evenings in his office pecking out campaign letters. They did not worry about the fact that they might be hurting their own pocketbooks: last year half of the company's $400,000 gross (and Henderson's $27,000 profits) came from Government orders. He would lose as a Congressman...