Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Race against Time. Into the project, which rivaled the building of the Pyramids, went Chinese rock and Chinese earth, Mississippi flood mats and Douglas fir pilings from the forests of the Pacific Northwest; into it also went UNRRA money and UNRRA grain. But the most important contribution was Chinese hands -200,000 of them-working night...
...Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia...
...Cotton Carnival time in Memphis. Skyrockets whooshed into the muddy Mississippi; searchlights glared above crowds along the riverfront. There were street dances, the crash of band music, the clack and jangle of noisemakers. Bunting was everywhere...
...Memphis, once the toughest town along the Mississippi, there were no prostitutes, gamblers, policy games or gunmen. Crump had simply banished them. Beale Street Negroes could damage each other only by exercising some ingenuity. Crump's cops shook them down nightly for pistols, Arkansas toothpicks,* clubs, brass knucks, razors and ice picks. There was virtually no grafting-Crump forbade it. Officials who took money for themselves (as opposed to accepting contributions from liquor stores, business houses, jukebox and pinball operators for the Crump machine) were prosecuted...
...mortgage loan businesses. In 22 years, E. H. Crump & Co. has experienced a phenomenal growth; many a Memphis business man understandably believes that insurance with Crump has a double value. Crump's 54 years in Memphis have yielded him not only power, but wealth-cotton land in Mississippi, a fine brick house, part ownership in an exclusive hunting club, major holdings in the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of N.Y. But no man has ever disputed the old man's proudest brag: that he has never made a nickel through common political graft...