Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cord, shorn of power but not of wealth, dropped out of the public eye, quietly began to pyramid his millions in Los Angeles real estate. He is still one of Wall Street's biggest speculators, has a Beverly Hills mansion, three Nevada ranches, a fleet of 20 cars (mostly Cadillacs) and two planes which he usually flies himself. Last week, at 56, Cord was back in the news with an incredible scheme to get control of some of the richest submerged oil wells off Louisiana and California. "Back in the old days," says Cord, "they called some...
Fairbank, who was in San Francisco ready to embark, immediately wired Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada) asking for a chance to testify before his Internal Security Committee "to answer libelous ex-Communist accusations...
Fairbank, who was in San Francisco ready to embark, immediately wired Senator Pat McCarran (D-Nevada) asking for a chance to testify before his Internal Security Committee "to answer libelous ex-Communist accusations...
...memories of Washington. When he came back to the capital as head of the visa division, he confined himself to rigid administration of the immigration laws, surrounded himself with experienced men, kept a policy of complete honesty and forthrightness with legislators. His policy worked out so well that even Nevada's crusty Pat McCarran, self-appointed watchdog of the gates to the U.S., once called the visa division "an American fifth column in the State Department...
With its customary air of guarded caution, the Atomic Energy Commission last week announced that it would begin a new series of tests "in the near future" at the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range in Nevada. The site is now on "permanent" status, said the AEC, and will be used for both atomic and ordinary explosives. Only a few official observers will see the first of the new tests, but newsmen and civil-defense leaders may be invited to a "subsequent test operation...