Word: biloxi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Biloxi Is Doing Business...
...BILOXI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
...Biloxi, Miss...
Along 25 miles of the old Spanish trail between Biloxi and Bay St. Louis, Miss., hardly a building was left standing. Sea walls buckled. Gulf coast beaches and roads were littered with poisonous water moccasins, blown and washed in from marshy offshore islands. Thousands of acres of sugar cane were flattened. Tidal waters flooded Louisiana's bayou country. New Orleans got a day-long battering which left it a-clutter with twisted autos, broken power lines, shattered windows...
...Despite rising prices and chilly weather, New Orleans boasted of the largest, gayest Mardi Gras since its beginning in 1827. Forty-three balls were scheduled. Thirteen parades tootled through flag-festooned streets. As far away as Biloxi, Miss, hotels were chock full, and private rooms in town were bringing...