Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tanned under his crumpled white hat, the President fished calmly in the Pacific. Far from calm was the Senate. As irritation mounted, Colorado's Johnson, Nevada's McCarran, Indiana's Van Nuys, South Carolina's Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
Last week Northwesterners rejoiced again when they heard that bucolic Bonneville had got another customer: a new firm named Sierra Iron Co. of Nevada, which planned a $600,000 pig iron plant at Vancouver, Wash., using 6,000 kilowatts the first year (1940-41), 30,000 thereafter. That hiked Bonneville's power contracts (fattened by agreements with municipalities) to 75% of present, 13% of ultimate capacity. Ready for the dotted line last week was a third industrial power user: a chemical maker with a hankering for an initial 2,000 kilowatts...
...Notably Nevada's Key Pittman...