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...Hardtack test series in Nevada. The series included three underground tests of various sizes...
...thought so when it entered in the Geneva conference in October 1948, but learned in the Hardtack underground test series in Nevada in September 1958 that no detection system using known methods could be depended upon to detect explosions of less than 19 kilotons...
...Monroe, wished aloud that the public would pay more attention to her lines and less to her curves. Said he: "She would not have lasted so long except for her genuine acting ability." As a case in point, he referred to Marilyn's forthcoming stardom in a Nevada-made movie titled The Misfit, written especially for her by Playwright Miller. "When this film is finished, everyone will recognize my wife's ability...
Even as Monroney and Quesada labored with airlines' experts, scientists and other technicians, the wings of tragedy were flapping noisily around them: an Air Force F-100F collided over Nevada with a United Air Lines DC-7 in April 1958, killing 49; next month an Air National Guard T-33 jet trainer rammed into a Capital Airlines Viscount over Maryland, killing twelve. With renewed urgency, Monroney and his staff analyzed the obsolescent aviation laws, scrapped them all and began over again. By the end of the 1958 congressional session, the new FAA act was written into law and signed...
...payments ranging up to $707,907 each in subsidies, 27 other Texans who collected up to $345,727 each from the Government, 75 other Arizonans who got up to $427,181 each, six other Arkansans who got up to $253,486 each, and a sprinkling of Louisiana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma and Tennessee growers whose takes ranged up to $223,841. Though a 1959 amendment sponsored by Williams theoretically limits crop loans to a maximum of $35,000 per farmer, Williams warned the Senate that he is skeptical about how much good the law will do, since it was badly...