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...east as Reno, rain sent the peaceful Truckee River on a binge, cut the city in half. Undaunted tourists kept yanking undaunted one-arm bandits in Harolds Club, joked about floating crap games. Though no lives were lost, the Reno region suffered $5,000,000 in damages. In southwest Oregon, the heaviest rains in 78 years brought floods that killed twelve people and flung huge fir logs off cliffs like harpoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Visitor to California | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...Montana Supreme Court in a series of decisions in June and July 1950 ruled that slot machines are illegal in Montana, and the voters in the Nov. 7 election, by a large majority, defeated a referendum which would have made the "one-arm bandits" legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1951 | 2/5/1951 | See Source »

...Yardlings ran and passed fairly well, but their blocking was light, and their tackling ineffective. High grabs and and one-arm stabs were common, and it usually took two or three men to down the Holy Cross ball-carrier...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Holy Cross Eleven Smashes '54 Football Squad by 40-0 | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

...sharp Blue and White passing and running attack piled up yardage as the Crimson, hampered by the early loss of two-way right end Harvey Popell, tried high tackles and one-arm grabs in a futile attempt to stop the Brandeis runners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brandeis Whips '54 Eleven; Yard Team Takes First Loss | 10/16/1950 | See Source »

Circumstantial. In Detroit, Mrs. Elizabeth Nicholson, mother of five, filed suit for divorce when she found a traffic ticket in her husband's pocket. The charge: one-arm driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 19, 1945 | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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