Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Civil Air Patrol had notched up many another service: in the Great Lakes region they reported ice breakups; in Illinois they towed targets for Army gunners. In Georgia they droned on patrol over swamps, looking for enemy agent skulduggery. In Nevada, with few airports, they began ground units. In Pennsylvania they were air couriers, and even carried light freight on short hops...
Fighting Speech. Worse was to come. That afternoon up rose Nevada's handsome, young (35) Senator Berkeley L. Bunker, to deliver the most blazing speech made yet in Congress against Emperor Jones's bureaucratic empire...
Bunker was angry about a plant put up in his native State (Nevada) by Basic Magnesium, Inc., under contract with Jones's Defense Plants Corp. From a Truman subcommittee report, Bunker figured that the company had furnished only $50,000, but stood to make a profit of $2,140,000 (4,280%) in a single year. Cried he: "If the agreement . . . represents a cross section of conduct on the part of the Defense Plant Corporation . . . we are tolerating the existence of an agency of the Government that is so corrupt as to make profiteering in the last war look...
...exercised for five or six miles, then cleaned and groomed; if he has no mare to serve that day he lolls around in his stall from 9 to 11, then lunch; 12:30 p.m. to 4: more lolling; 4:30 p.m.: cleaned and fed again (eats oats, bran, Nevada hay and a mixture of timothy and clover); then tucked into the barn for the night...
...Bill Batt announced that U.S. manganese output for 1943 will be stepped up 1,400% over 1940 (to 600,000 tons a year) by developing high-cost mines in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nevada. The Government will absorb the excess price, sell the metal to fabricators at what imported concentrate would cost them...