Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rockefeller has proposed more horse racing (betting is already taxed) by means of an extra race a day and five additional racing days a season. Texas, its oil producers already hilt-taxed, may tax natural-gas transmission companies as well. New Mexico may triple its severance tax on uranium; Nevada will collect one-fourth the state budget from legalized gambling; Florida taxes citrus growers and Maine its timber...
Sharpest percentage rise in state spending this year is taking place in well-heeled small-population states (Iowa up 19%, Indiana up 16%, Nevada up 15%). But the sharpest pangs will be felt in such big-population states as New York, California, Michigan and Illinois...
...people of tiny Laos received in 1957 some $48 million in U.S. aid-about $9,000,000 more than the U.S. Government disbursed to the three states of Nevada, New Hampshire and Vermont together. For a time last year, it looked seriously as though the Communists were going...
...that new information has cast doubt on the effectiveness of the 180-station system. Last week the U.S. Department of Defense released the data that led to this conclusion. To measure the seismic effects of underground tests, 16 special seismographs were set up in a line extending from the Nevada atomic proving ground to Maine, 2.500 miles away...
...stations listened attentively during October while the AEC made underground tests in faraway Nevada. The rock waves came through all right, but not quite as strongly as had been anticipated. At distances above 700 miles, only explosions of more than 20 kilotons could be identified clearly as manmade. To sum up, said the panel, the 180-station detection system might be confronted by 1,500, not 100, natural seismic shocks a year that could not be distinguished from an underground test explosion. This number would presumably overburden the checking system as presently outlined...