Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mississippi's legislature shelved a bill requiring radio stations to play Dixie at the start and finish of each day's broadcast...
...Alcoa hailed as "the greatest single application ever achieved in the building trades," was its giant new $30 million rolling mill at Davenport, Iowa. Built in 18 months and nearly ready to start production (of extra-wide sheeting), the mill squats over 47 acres along the banks of the Mississippi River...
...tides of the upper air were calm as darkness fell. One balmy air mass pushed up from the Gulf of Mexico, flowed over New Orleans, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas. Cold air edged eastward from the Pacific. When the air masses came together, like rock strata along an earthquake fault, a storm was born...
...Disaster struck the soo-ft. Mississippi towboat Natchez, namesake of the steamboat which raced the Robert E. Lee. The swollen river's current smashed the vessel into a bridge pier near Greenville, Miss. She rolled over and sank in 30 seconds. Thirteen of her crew were saved; another 13 drowned...
...nutria breeders had the same experience. In 1939, 50 pairs were released in Iberia Parish, La. (All they need for food is coarse marsh vegetation.) Next year one was found 65 miles away by water. By now, thriving in the wild, they have reached the delta of the Mississippi and crossed the state line into Texas. During the 1946-47 trapping season, the state of Louisiana collected taxes on 18,015 skins...