Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After World War II the thinly populated (589,000) logging-mining-farming state of Idaho found itself surrounded east, west and south by a locust-like infestation of rattling slot machines. The one-armed bandits ran legally in Nevada and (until last year) in Washington, and clanged away illegally but just as noisily in Montana and Wyoming. Some of them ran illegally in Idaho, too, but even so, the state legislature began visualizing whole creeks of Idaho money rushing away into the voracious slots of neighboring states...
...bitter critic of Nevada's Senator Pat McCarran, Las Vegas Sun Publisher Hank Greenspun has more than political disagreements with his state's senior Senator. In a suit filed last spring, Greenspun charged that McCarran had conspired with more than 20 Nevada gambling casino owners to withdraw about $8,000 a month in casino ads from the Sun, thus attempting to silence the paper's criticism of him (TIME, June 16). Last week the $225,000 damage suit charging that McCarran had conspired with the gamblers was settled out of court. Under the terms of the settlement...
...past, opponents of Alaska equality have pointed to her sparse population as a prohibition. While the Territory is not so well populated as many state, she has well over the Constitutional minimum, and more than Nevada...
...13th semiannual report, released this week, the AEC told how it guards the U.S. against radioactive dust from its Nevada Proving Ground...
...hundreds of Camp Fire Girls, aged eight to 16, who thronged the four camps around Lake Vera in the foothills of California's Sierra Nevada had a wonderful time. They hiked through the pinewoods, splashed in the little lake, cooked and slept outdoors. Along with sunburned necks and scraped knees, most of them got a few mosquito bites. They were used to that. And after 1,500 girls had scattered to their homes, a few got sick. That was natural...