Word: louisiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steel Lips went on to say he took up the trumpet at the age of fourteen and worked first as a bugle boy in an army camp down in Louisiana. "The boys came runnin' fast for eats when I let go on that mess call." And now his trumpets ("Lil' Satchel-mouth") don't last up long under Louis' lung power. The intricate instrument of shining brass he plays today he's had only since 1933, and he's already ordered a new one made...
...When Louisiana jumped its sulphur tax to $2, the sulphur companies threatened to move out of the State. If the Texas Legislature passes the $2 tax recommended by the tax committee, as most observers think it will, the sulphur companies will have nowhere to go. As Texan Graves drawled last week: "Only God can make sulphur and he is making it mighty slow...
...Orleans 250 mi. Near the centre of this big southwestern triangle is a man-made lake near Hot Springs, Ark. called Catherine. On an island in the lake is Couchwood, the spacious summer home of Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, onetime (1932-34) RFC director, chair-man of Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. and Arkansas' richest citizen. The four C's in Harvey Couch's book read: "Courage, Confidence, Concentration and Co-operation will enable us to make Arkansas and this section of the Southwest the most self-sustaining, the most prosperous part...
Harvey Couch's Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. has only one dining car, the K.C.S. but three. Assets of the two roads foot up in about the same ratio - $36,500,000: $136,000,000 - and dining car and passenger revenues mean little to either. Running from New Orleans to Shreveport, La. and Hope, Ark. with an affiliate branching to Dallas, Tex. the L. & A. carries mostly quarry products, refined oils and sugar...
Another step in what may be Harvey Couch's plan for a Southwestern rail empire was a new application to the Interstate Commerce Commission early this month in which the L. & A. sought permission to buy the Rock Island, Arkansas & Louisiana R. R. First proposed last summer, this acquisition would connect the L. & A. with Little Rock, Arkansas' first city...