Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus far American Research and Development has invested in a Mississippi enterprise using high-pressure hydraulics in pumps and motors, aviation and tank degreasing processes, a Texas frozen shrimp business, a process that converts electrical energy into heat for industrial use, an da method of making a flexible tubing to carry hot and cold...
...Civil War will be fought again tonight as the sons of the South gather to celebrate Southern Memorial Day. The holiday only comes on this date in Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi, but all loyal Confederates are invited to come to Mower A-21 at 6:15 p.m. tonight...
With the air of a man who is sure of his own strength, Mississippi's wily old demagogue John E. Rankin rolled his stupendous veterans' pork barrel onto the floor of the House, and defied the quaking Congressmen to throw it out. What old John wanted was $90 monthly at 65 for every veteran, whether he needed it or not. The cost would add up to something like $125 billion over the next 50 years. But determined John Rankin had posed his colleagues an agonizing choice between conscience and constituents...
When this bill was only a mad gleam in Rankin's eye a few months ago, few people were disturbed. It looked like Rankin was just going to try to embarrass the Administration by yowping about veterans' rights in his Veterans' Affairs Committee. But the colorful statesman from Mississippi was able to ram his project through the committee--most of the members stalked out of the "hearing" in protest against the chairman's arbitrary tactics--and he was also able to bring it to the House floor on Tuesday...
...hurried to Mississippi on location to film William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, a novel about an attempted lynching. Twentieth Century-Fox was preparing Pinky, a story about miscegenation, and had in reserve No Way Out, a tale of a Negro intern. In New England, Louis de Rochement, the first to announce a project on the Negro theme, was shooting for Film Classics, Inc. a picture called Lost Boundaries, about Negroes who pass for whites...