Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile the Senate was still talking. Nevada's dour George Malone was in a huff because Colorado's Eugene Millikin had blocked his pet bill to extend the tax-free whisky-bonding period. So Malone resolved to block Millikin's pet Colorado Basin project, which was the Senate's pending business. He talked about neither reclamation nor whisky and he talked for four hours. ("What is he talking about?" asked a late-coming reporter of a press-gallery attendant. "I don't know; he hasn't said," replied the attendant.) Finally Millikin threw...
Still without a divorce from Crooner Frank Sinatra, Cinemactress Ava Gardner left Nevada, where she had waited out her six-week legal residency stint, and rushed to Havana's Hotel Nacional, where she and Frankie had honeymooned so long ago. This time she registered as Miss Anne Clarke and maid, later went fishing with her old friend, Author Ernest Hemingway, hooked a twelve-pounder, while Papa caught nothing...
...showed heartening declines in polio case rates (see map). In the southeast, Florida stood out as a plague spot. California's total was boosted by the local epidemic in Los Angeles. In sparsely populated states, relatively few cases justified an epidemic rating-e.g., Wyoming with 98 and Nevada with 60. Most hopeful factor in the situation was the absence of severe polio outbreaks in most of the Middle West, which had been hard hit for several years. For the U.S. as a whole, statisticians figured that an individual's chance of being attacked by paralytic polio before...
...towns, but Virginia City had nothing to be ashamed of-she could hold up her head with the worst. She had been christened with a bottle of whisky, and her intemperate citizens used to ventilate each other with six-shooters until the drafts became unbearable. At Virginia City, on Nevada's silver-veined Comstock Lode, local mishaps and bonanzas were recorded by the Territorial Enterprise, as freewheeling and free-shooting a weekly as the U.S. has known...
McKay believes in conservation, not decomposition. He has pushed the surveys needed for land development. In Nevada, which is 85% federally owned. says McKay, "the survey was going so slowly it wouldn't have been finished for a thousand years. I've fixed it so the job will be done this century anyway." He has pushed timber cutting to provide a permanent yield (as practiced by big Western operators, like Crown Zellerbach and Weyerhaeuser, whose future lies in future forest growth...