Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week ended on a gory note struck by marcel-haired Pat McCarran of Nevada, known to the ungrateful press as "Old Bleeding Heart" for his practice of making important speeches as if each were his last on earth. Said McCarran...
...Hansgirg's process, already in use in England and Japan, differs from the electrolytic method covered by the Dow-Alcoa patents, is claimed by Dr. Hansgirg to be better and cheaper. Brucite clay (magnesium hydroxide) from Nevada will be baked in rotary kilns to form magnesium oxide. The oxide then will be mixed with carbon and heated electrically into gas at 4,000° F. When this is cooled suddenly (from 4,000° to 380° in about 1/1,000 of a second) by blasts of cold natural gas, metallic magnesium is recovered...
...McCarran, Democrat of Nevada, described the tragedy as "legalized murder" and demanded enactment of his bill to re-establish the CAA and the Air Safety Board as independent agencies. The Safety Board was abolished and the CAA became a commerce department unit under a presidential reorganization order which became effective last July...
...change in voting strength in the Senate was small. There were five more Republican Senators than there had been a year ago-28 in all. There were eleven brand-new Senators. Youngest: Nevada's handsome Berkeley Bunker, 34. Conspicuously missing was more than one doughty lawmaker: Ashurst, Burke, Minton, Holt...
...President Roosevelt could bring about a "just peace" in Europe if he were willing, that the President could force Hitler into peace by threatening to enter the war on the British side if the peace terms weren't "reasonable." Senators Tydings of Maryland, Vandenberg of Michigan, McCarran of Nevada, Holt of West Virginia, Johnson of Colorado all chorused this sentiment, with bass and tenor variations. Next morning the New York Times demanded to know what they meant by "a just peace": just to whom? To The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Poland, France, CzechoSlovakia? Walter Lippmann asked how Hitler could...