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Photograph of Howard Hughes behind his plane at Le Bourget Airfield, France, July 1938

Date

1938-07

Description

Description printed on photograph's accompanying strip of paper: "Howard Hughes examining the damaged tail of his plane after his arrival at the Le Bourget Airfield, Paris, on his world flight. July 1938"

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Photograph of Howard Hughes' Flying Boat, Long Beach, California, November 03, 1947

Date

1947-11-03

Description

Description given with photo: "Before Surprise Flight, Long Beach, Calif.: No longer land-locked, Howard Hughes' 200-ton flying boat, world's largest plane, rides free in Los Angeles harbor after being floated for the first time. The builder and pilot later took the controversial plane into the air for a surprise one-mile flight during taxing trials. Credit (ACME) 11-3-47."

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Photograph of Howard Hughes with Senator Harry P. Cain, Culver City, California, August 16, 1947

Date

1947-08-16

Description

A view of Howard Hughes (right) being asked about his controversial XF-11 photo reconnaissance plane by Senator Harry Cain (left), Republican of Washington, in Culver City, California. An unidentified man sits between the two.

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Photograph of a drill bit at the Hughes Tool Co., Houston, Texas, circa 1950s

Date

1950 to 1959

Description

Transcribed from attached press release: "LITTLE BIT Only an inch and a quarter in diameter, this "microbit" enables engineers at the Hughes Tool Company, Houston, Texas, to estimate the performance of full-size bits for the oil drilling industry. The company operates the largest testing laboratory of its kind anywhere in the world and produces thousands of rock bits necessary to drill deeper and deeper as the world's shallow oil wells have become exhausted. Howard Hughes terms the Hughes Tool company the "keystone" of his industrial empire."

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New York University Graduate School of Business Administration, "A Study of the Economic Impact of the Change in the Pari-mutuel Tax on the Pari-mutuel Industry of New York State", 1980

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
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Collection Number: MS-00561
Collection Name: Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers
Box/Folder: Box 085

Archival Component

New York: Padavan, Frank, "The Dice are Rolling: Gambling with New York State's Future" report; Lynch, Gerald W., "Final Report of the Casino Gambling Study Panel New York State" report; Economic Research Service of the New York State Legislative Institute, "Casino Gambling Study" report; and Task Force on Legalized Gambling, "Easy Money" report, approximately 1974-1997

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
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Collection Number: MS-00092
Collection Name: Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming
Box/Folder: Box 15

Archival Component

Letter from Hugh A. Shamberger (Carson City) to Las Vegas Land and Water Company (Las Vegas), June 21, 1950

Date

1950-06-21

Archival Collection

Description

List of wells owned by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company and the amount of water granted to each.

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Photograph of a crowd watching the fuselage of Hughes Flying Boat in transit, California, June 16, 1946

Date

1946-06-16

Description

Transcribed from stamp on back of photo: "June 16, 1946; Hughes Aircraft Photo." Crowds and policeman watching as a section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" was being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled June 1946. The men are raising the power lines so the fuselage can pass under.

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Photograph of the HK-1, Hughes Flying boat, as it returns from its historic test flight, November 2, 1947

Date

1947-11-02

Description

A side view of the HK-1, Hughes Flying Boat, the world's largest plane, which successfully completed its first flight. The eight 3,000 horsepower engines lifted the craft from the waters of Los Angeles Harbor with Hughes at the controls. The plane is 219 ft long.

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Easterling, D. 1997. "The Vulnerability of the Nevada Visitor Economy to a Respository at Yucca Mountain." Risk Analysis, 17, (5), 635-647. New York, New York: Plenum Press, 1997

Level of Description

File

Archival Collection

Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada
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Collection Number: MS-00603
Collection Name: Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Box/Folder: Box 37

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