Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week another Mormon went to the Senate. Nevada's Governor E. P. Carville (a Catholic) appointed to the seat of the late Key Pittman a 34-year-old L. D. S. bishop, Berkeley Lloyd Bunker, a Texaco filling-station operator of Las Vegas...
Meanwhile, in Washington, Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, author of the bill setting up the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority, raised his voice. Less than five months ago Franklin D. Roosevelt by executive order reorganized CAA, made it a board under the Department of Commerce. The change was made over the protest of airlines and pilots, who had found CAA's administration stern but effective, feared a change might wreck a great safety record. Last week Pat McCarran announced that he would begin a fight in January to make CAA independent again. Said he: "There is no branch...
...married Mimosa Gates, a prospector's sister, soon headed south for California. In California came the whisper again: Gold in Nevada! Key Pittman arrived in Tonopah, Nev. by stagecoach, a journey colder and more hazardous than any Klondike trip. That was 1902. "Winter of Death," when men dug as many holes for graves as for gold. Pittman missed both, settled down as Tonopah's legal light. By 1910 he was restless again. Congress didn't seem to understand mining-especially silver mining. He went to the Senate in 1912, was re-elected...
...Idaho, 1,954; Illinois, 62,223; Indiana, 21,087; Iowa, 11,738; Kansas, 8,388; Kentucky, 9,154; Louisiana, 15,084; Maine, 3,081; Maryland, 12,564; Massachusetts, 20,556; Michigan, 47,282; Minnesota, 18,652; Mississippi, 12,759; Missouri, 23,619; Montana, 2,563; Nebraska, 6,456; Nevada, 624; New Hampshire, 1,579; New Jersey, 32,170; New Mexico, 2,962; New York, 114,796; North Carolina, 15,613; North Dakota, 3,401; Ohio, 52,497; Oklahoma, 9,365; Oregon, 2,806; Pennsylvania, 61,522; Rhode Island, 3,118; South Carolina, 5,957; South Dakota, 3,525; Tennessee...
...Commercial banks and sales-finance companies held $1,890,000,000 in retail installment paper (mostly purchased from retailers) at 1939's end. Since 1934 banks have increasingly entered the sales-finance field, by 1940 had upped their percentage of the total to 28.6%. In California, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia and Wyoming, holdings of sales-finance companies and banks are practically identical in amount. Reasons: 1) more liberal State banking laws, 2) branch banking, 3) less conservative attitude of the bankers...