Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three water exchanges will spread the benefit of the Klamath water. About 100,000 acre-feet of it can take care of farmers with claims on the American River. Then some of the American's upper tributaries can be used for irrigation in bone-dry Nevada...
...early afternoon when Dr. Shultz got the call: five-year-old Sara Sharr had been kicked in the head by a mule at Golden Trout Camp, 10,000 feet high in California's Sierra Nevada range. That was 25 roadless miles from the doctor's office in Lone Pine (elev. 3,728 ft.). No plane could land near the camp. Nothing to do but pack in. At 3 :30, Dr. Shultz set out on horseback, with a mule carrying a stretcher, an instrument bag and plasma...
...tobacco or aluminum cases disclosed the existence of greater power in one organization directly to affect the economic life of so great a geographical area ... as does the record in this case." As evidence of that power, Evans cited figures: in the five-state area of California, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Washington, Transamerica controls 47 banks, with 667 banking offices which have about 41% of all banking space, 30% of all deposits, 50% of all bank loans. To break up this concentration, Evans recommended that FRB order Transamerica to sell all of its stock in the 47 banks, retaining only...
...With Nevada the 36th state to ratify it, the U.S. now has a new amendment to the Constitution...
...started when Harry Truman picked Richardson to head the Subversive Activities Control Board. That aroused the Senate's one-man roadblock, Nevada's testy Pat McCarran, chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee. McCarran would not even permit a hearing on whether Congress should confirm Richardson and the four other board appointees, because McCarran wanted to handle loyalty himself. Last week Richardson quit, giving as his reason a critical surgical operation ordered by his doctors. Then...