Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their preholiday scramble to dispose of weightier matters, Congressmen did not forget the old custom of giving a year's salary to the heirs of a deceased member -even though this time he was Mississippi's ill-famed Senator Theodore G. Bilbo. In the bill providing $540 million for interim aid to Europe and China, they appropriated $12,500 to be divided equally between Bilbo's son, Lieut. Colonel Theodore G. Bilbo, A.U.S., and his daughter, Mrs. Jessie Forrest Bilbo Smith, of Poplarville, Miss...
...tugboat Sprague, known for 45 years from one end of the Mississippi to the other as "Big Mamma," the "shovingest" boat on the river, was on the banks and waiting for the wrecker. One of the last of the sternwheelers, she could handle 19 oil barges-the equivalent of a tank-car train ten miles long...
...Mississippi-born Playwright Williams, 33, perhaps the surest weaver of vapors now writing for the U.S. stage, is a stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering writer . . . clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers"-years in which he worked as bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village bistro...
...Seated Mississippi's John C. Stennis, elected three weeks ago to fill the unexpired term of the late Theodore G. Bilbo. Thus, for the first time this year, the Senate had its full quota of 96 members...
...until 1850, three centuries after the Amazon's discovery by a Spaniard, that white men sailed up it to exploit and trade in this jungle area that is twice as vast as the Mississippi basin. Few stayed. Twice the Amazon has been tapped-by the rubber boom at the turn of the century and the mad rubber hunt during World War II. The first left a high-domed opera house at Manáos and the 226-mile single-track Madeira-Mamoré Railway. The World War II boom established some of the beginnings of modern sanitation and medicine...