Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to official statistics released Oct. 30 by the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau, Charles Conerly (playing his last year for the University of Mississippi Rebels) in the first six games of the 1947 season completed 69 passes, ten for touchdowns...
Floodlights limned the vessels, the gangling cargo hoists and the Negro longshoremen crawling up & down the gangways. All night long, rain or shine, the work went on, as the merchandise of the Mississippi Valley flowed southward through the artery and the merchandise of the world flowed back again. New Orleans* was no longer just the "City That Care Forgot"-a tourist-bureau sobriquet which the city's businessmen now disdained...
Babylon on the Delta. No great U.S. seaport is typical. Each has its own strange mixture of races and cultures, each possesses its own peaceful and violent story. The story of New Orleans began when LaSalle, in 1682, erected a cross on the Mississippi Delta. A century later, the site had become a New World port...
...first few floors of a building on Gravier Street and called it International House. It became the symbol of the brisk new day. International House was designed to draw New Orleanians together in a common aim, to stop cutthroat competition, oppose tariff barriers, sing the praises of the Mississippi Valley and cultivate the commerce of all the world...
...Miss had a 6-ft., 183-lb. halfback, Chunkin' Charley Conerly who, from all accounts, was the greatest ever. Mississippi rooters wanted the noise to be heard far away, so those fellows up in New York would be sure to put Charley on their All-Americas...