Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make joint returns mandatory for husbands & wives who live together (TIME, July 21). But a band of 15 Senators, mostly Westerners from States which have a community-property law (permitting family income to be divided equally between husband & wife for income-tax purposes), chose grey-maned Pat McCarran of Nevada to lead the fight...
When word comes, ground crews rush out to the planes, load them with bombing materials-a mixture of bran and sodium fluosilicate. Into the Nevada-Utah mountains the pilots fly until they see below them tumultuous marching armies of brown insects, so dense that they look like waves of molasses. Diving within 50 feet of the crags, the pilots drop their poisoned bait. The goggle-eyed, wingless crickets stop, eat, die-95% of them on warm days, 75% on cool days (when they are idler, less hungry...
Around the time of the Civil War, Nevada's Virginia City, site of the fabulous Comstock Lode, was the wildest, hell-roaringest mining town in the world. Men who arrived haggard, filthy and penniless soon made thousands of dollars a week from the blue-black silver ore, gorged themselves on oysters, caviar, champagne. The streets thundered all night with brawling, boozing, wenching. Sam Brown, one of the first "bad men" of the old West, literally carved a man to pieces with his bowie knife, went to sleep on a table while his awed companions collected and removed the fragments...
Author of the ubiquitous amendment is husky-throated, balding little James Graves Scrugham. Once a college professor, newspaper publisher, and Governor of cattle-raising Nevada, Scrugham has been Nevada's lone Representative since...
Nevertheless, Nevada's Pat McCarran, author of the old CAA act, trumpeted on the floor of the Senate: "This legalized murder should stop." He sat tousle-headed and glaring while bumbling Alben Barkley tried to defend Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization of CAA which abolished the crack, independent Air Safety Board. A Senate subcommittee will investigate the Atlanta crash. And when Pat McCarran's bill to set aside Franklin Roosevelt's reorganization comes to hearing, there will be plenty of fireworks...