Word: nevadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such a happy holiday season ahead, it is not hard to understand Marlene's extravagant regard for the Nevada boom town. A great many other Americans seem to agree with her. By the end of 1953, 8,000,000 tourists will have visited Las Vegas, gaped at the sights, risked nearly a billion dollars gambling, and moved on. Behind them they will leave some $200 million, a quarter of it in slot machines and on gaming tables. From every statistical point of view, it will be a record-breaking year. But then, it is always a record-breaking...
Weekend Stampede. In 1940 Las Vegas was a scraggly tank town with a tumbleweed economy. But Las Vegas' happy proximity to Southern California and Nevada's benign climate for gambling combined to change all that. By 1953 the population had climbed from 8,400 to 43,000, and business had soared into the financial ionosphere...
Explains Robbins Cahill, executive secretary of Nevada's tax commission...
While shooting scenes in Reno for Johnny Dark, a sports-car story, a Hollywood movie crew hired a local amateur-Nevada's leonine Senator Pat McCarran -to play the role of road-race starter. Although miscast in the silent role, McCarran whipped the green flag down with such artistry that only one retake was necessary. The Senator announced that his $10 pay would go to charity...
...Silly." Everything, including Nevada's courts, ran close to schedule. First, Crooner Haymes led a caravan of newsmen to the Las Vegas court, where in seven minutes flat he got a divorce from his third wife. ex-Cigarette Girl Nora Eddington, who had once been married to Errol Flynn. On the courthouse steps he responded to the command of a dozen photographers to "wave your decree," then set out to pick up his fiancee, trailed by newsmen and Pressagent Freeman, who kept booming out: "Is everybody happy?" At the license bureau, while Rita and Dick tried to sign papers...