Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atomic Energy Commission is taking no chances this time with the sonic aftereffects of its Nevada bomb tests. A team of experts led by Dr. Alvin Graves, scientific advisor for bomb-testing, has just returned from a mission of reassurance through eastern Nevada and southwestern Utah. When the next series of devices begin exploding this month, Dr. Graves hopes that the neighbors will take it calmly...
Covering the thinly settled country where the panic took place. Dr. Graves has talked with physicians, civic leaders and newspapermen in each small town. He has assured them that they have nothing to worry about. The AEC is not planning to test hydrogen bombs in Nevada, not even baby H-bombs (if such things exist...
When the bombs begin popping, Graves promised. AEC representatives will be in radio contact with the Nevada test site and will tell the public when each bomb is scheduled. If a harmless sound wave hits the region, Graves hopes that panic will not sweep the gulches again...
...midst of Neuberger's speech, Mrs. George Malone, peppery wife of the Republican Senator from Nevada, rose from her chair, uttered a distinct boo, and flounced from the banquet hall. Afterward, she was scolded in the lobby by Perle Mesta, elder daughter of the Democratic regiment. Next day both ladies denied everything (she was only going to the ladies' room, explained Katie Malone), and Dick Neuberger, the man who wanted to be dignified, was the subject of caterwauling headlines across the nation...
...Paso Natural Gas Co. will build a 370-mile, $35 million pipeline from Pacific Northwest's Mt. Home terminal to the California-Nevada border, there sell California's big power companies 250 million...