Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marriages between whites and Negroes are prohibited in 27 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas. Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming. California's 1872 miscegenation statute was declared unconstitutional...
...Simmons at a cocktail-drenched Hollywood party in his honor, affectionately gave her a platonic squeeze. This week Coward will begin a month's run in a Las Vegas pleasure dome at a reported $40,000 a week (a figure which probably, like many in the Nevada resort, is not entirely real). Entertainer Coward, 55, was "enchanted" by the prospect of bringing British culture to the Wild West. Burbled he of Las Vegas: "It's a combination of a gold rush and a honky-tonk...
...time Goodie graduated, his father was in financial difficulties, unable to send him to college. Goodie went to work as a single jacker in a Nevada mine, pounding out blast holes with a sledgehammer ("Very good for the shoulders,'' says Goodie) and saved enough money to enter Stanford University. During other college summers, he shoveled coke for the Santa Fe ("Very good for the arms") and drove a delivery truck. At Stanford, doing what came naturally, he quickly became a big man on campus. "He was the eternal sophomore," says Fellow Alumnus Earl Behrens, who became...
...gambling Las Vegas, he played one nickel in one slot machine. It was, he said, a ritual that he performs each time he goes to Nevada to watch A-bombs - "dipping my toe in the water at a famous bath...
...levies. In New York, personal income taxes were in creased 11% by Democratic Governor Averell Harriman's administration. In Iowa, under Republican Governor Leo Hoegh, the legislature adopted a whole range of tax increases (in sales, use, in come and gasoline levies), adding up to an 8% boost. Nevada became the 32nd state to levy a general sales and use tax (2%); Washington pushed its state sales tax up to the highest in the U.S. (3.3%) ; Idaho decided to begin deducting state income tax from paychecks. Gasoline taxes, levied by all 48 states, are going up from an average...