Word: reno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reno Vielman leads the breaststroke again, with sophomores Ken Emerson and Fred Weymar and junior Dick Wheeler adding depth to the department...
...Truckee River swept hip-deep through the business district of Reno: it smashed floating trees into plate-glass windows, poured into hundreds of lobbies, showrooms and basements, and even forced round-the-clock gambling places to close up. On the California side of the mountains there were floods from Marysville south to Bakersfield; 15,000 were driven from their homes, crops were ruined, livestock drowned and 326,000 acres submerged...
Divorced. Alvin C. Eurich, 48, president of New York's big, growing, two-year-old State University (TIME, Sept. 11); by Alice Albert Eurich, fortyish; after 24 years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Congressional tempers had really burned over such loans as the $6 million to wobbly Waltham Watch Co.; $37.5 million to the now bankrupt Lustron Corp.; $10.1 million to Texmass Petroleum Co., which used 81% of the money to bail out creditors; and $975,000 to Reno's Mapes Hotel, which gets a big part of its income from a thriving gambling concession. Congressional probers had found that 50% of all RFC business loans had gone down the drain of shaky companies instead of being used to finance new ventures...
Incumbent Regent Albert Hilliard, a Reno attorney up for reelection, thought otherwise. As a university employee, he argued, Sheeketski had no right to run. Otherwise, members of the faculty would also feel able to run for regent, and the result would be "complete confusion." He said he would move to have Sheeketski dismissed as coach...