Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's generals and statesmen, the radioactive "fallout" from nuclear explosions is a grave worry for the future. For scientists who date ancient objects by Carbon 14. it is already a serious nuisance and threatens to get worse. Southwestern laboratories near the Nevada atom-bomb testing ground have found it impossible to use Carbon 14; there is too much competing radioactivity in their vicinity. Even on the Eastern seaboard, Carbon 14 work at the University of Pennsylvania has often been stopped by a radioactive cloud drifting slowly overhead. The "background radiation" gets so strong that the voice of Carbon...
GAMBLING HOUSES in Nevada will rack up the biggest winnings in history for 1954, predicts the State Tax Commission, which gets a 2% tax on gross winnings. Gamblers' estimated take: $90 million...
...votes in Multnomah County, Ore. (see below), which gave them, with the help of Wayne Morse, a 49-47 majority. Although 37 seats were on the block, there were only eight shifts from which the Democrats eked out a net gain of two Senators. Some of the changes (Nevada, Wyoming, Ohio) were a return to a status quo ante, i.e., before a temporary appointment by a governor to fill an unexpired term...
...Nevada: Alan Bible, 44, onetime Senate elevator operator and state attorney general, defeated Senator Ernest Brown, who was appointed last month to fill the late Pat McCarran's seat. Bible, McCarran's protégé and law partner, has promised to carry on the McCarran tradition by plugging for higher wool, lead and zinc tariffs...
...likewise unblessed. Along with her strong voice, Miss Petina projects a chill which seems to come right from the heart. Although even a Shirley Booth couldn't salvage On With the Show, Miss Petina estranges the audience just a bit further. Her co-star, Robert Wright, plays a Nevada banker who is financing the stars of a stranded opera company. He sets Miss Petina up in a beauty emporium, falls in love with her, and--worst of all--sings about...