Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line-up that costs Harrah more than $2,000,000 a year. Harrah's operation must relieve the customers of $60,000 a day-more than $21 million a year-merely to break even. High as those figures sound. Bill Harrah, the largest single private employer in Nevada, beats them with ease. By next year he expects to pay more than $7,000,000 to more than 2,000 employees...
Status with a Splash. These last week were typical members of the new fast-growing brotherhood of the sea. In Florida and Kentucky, in Illinois and Texas, in Oregon and Nevada and Georgia-wherever land stops and water begins, and even where the water's edge is a day's journey-U.S. families were caught with boat fever. The sport that 20 years ago was confined largely to fishermen and the rich has become a pastime enjoyed by some 40 million U.S. citizens. In just twelve years the number of boats that churn...
...Armstrong commanded the artillery battery which fired the first atomic round. At the Nevada proving grounds, he had men from the Artillery School and numerous civilian scientists under his command...
...that led to the Senate resolution censuring McCarthy in December 1954. Zwicker is now a major general, commander of the XX Reserve Corps. *The nays, aside from Morse: Alaska's E. L. Bartlett and Ernest Gruening, Colorado's John A. Carroll, Montana's James E. Murray, Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Ohio's Stephen M. Young, Pennsylvania's Joseph S. Clark, South Carolina's Olin Johnston, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd and Jennings Randolph. *In August 1951, by a scared mare that Morse was showing at a fair in Orkney Springs...
...behind the girls is Kent's rector and headmaster, the Rev. John 0. Patterson, a 51-year-old, Nevada-born Episcopal priest who began as an M.I.T.-trained architect, spent 15 years in Midwest parishes before coming to Kent in 1949. No monastic-he has a wife and four children-Father Patterson has a hard-headed reason for backing the girls' annex. In today's world, says he, "men have to work effectively with women. Women are people as much...