Word: reno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reno, the President had spoken "to an acre and a half of people." In Los Angeles he had addressed "30,000 people in Gilmore Stadium and they seemed highly interested." He said, further: "The governor of Texas met me [in El Paso] and we went across Texas, and I must have seen a million people in Texas...
Divorced. William P. (Bill) Odom, 28, record-breaking (73 hrs. 5 min.) round-the-world flyer (the Reynolds Bombshell); by Dorothy W. Odom, 28; after nearly nine years of marriage, two children; in Reno...
...special train snaked down the eastern slopes of the green Sierra, its engine backing slowly around the hairpin curves and through the snowsheds. It stopped briefly at Truckee, rolled on across the Nevada line to Reno, on to the Southern Pacific division point at Sparks. As darkness fell, the train picked up speed, racing along the alkali sinks of the bare Nevada countryside...
Having taken in $25,297.50 in prize money in seven months of tournament play, Hogan slipped away for a long rest and a series of golf shorts in Hollywood, before Reno's September Invitational. The other pros, who needed the money, headed for Chicago's brassy Tarn O'Shanter tournaments, which pay out the biggest prize money ($55,300) in golf. Oliver was bound there "to get some more cookies for my two girls and my boy . . . and to get away from Hogan...
...Reno, which had dutifully outlawed prostitution during the war at the Army's request, authorized brothels to reopen once more with the full protection...