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Word: nevadas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York University. The list includes names as famed as Harvard ($4,510,000), but there are others scarcely anyone has ever heard of. Pennsylvania has the largest number of beneficiaries (57). North Dakota has only one (Jamestown College), and five states-Arizona, Delaware, New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming-have none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Way of a Windfall | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

...city increased eight to nine times. From Tokyo came reports that rain which fell on the island of Kyushu contained 29,800 conts of radioactive particles per liter, compared with a norm of 20 to 30, and with 5,400 during last spring's U.S. tests in Nevada. Some of the radioactive particles fell during snowfalls in the U.S. and Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radioactivity from Russia | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...including construction of a 413-mile pipeline from Colorado and New Mexico's San Juan Basin to the Arizona-California border. The program will increase the El Paso system deliveries by 455,175,000 cu. ft. of natural gas a day to serve more customers in California, Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico. Part of the gas will come indirectly from Canada, through a deal (also authorized by FPC last week) in which Westcoast Transmission Co. of Canada will pipe 300 million cu. ft. a day into the lines of Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp., at the Canadian border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: The Watch Spring | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

From 1950 to 1954, the U.S. population rose by 10,485,000 to 162,409,000, an increase of 7%, the Census Bureau reported this week. The states showing the biggest percentage gains: Nevada, up 31% from 160,083 to 210,000 and Arizona, up 23.8% from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CENSUS: Up 10 1/2 Million | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Last week there was a good reason: a lot of the hotelmen-gamblers were rolling snake eyes. Less than five months after it opened, the 250 room, $5 million Royal Nevada was losing so much money that it was being taken over by the Desert Inn, a comparative oldtimer. The veteran management of the Flamingo hotel was moving in to rescue the shaky $8,000,000 Riviera. The $3,000,000 Moulin Rouge, built to lure in Negroes, had to be reorganized. Last week the well-established Sands took over the three-month-old, $4,000,000 Dunes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Snake Eyes in Las Vegas | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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