Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Issue. Across the Hill, in a Senate committee room, Mississippi's rabble-rousing Senator James O. Eastland faced C. B. Baldwin, secretary of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party. "Beanie" Baldwin was there to protest an anti-Communist bill. Baldwin, who off the stand said he was no Communist, refused on the stand to answer whether he was one or not. Angry at Eastland's insistence, Baldwin shouted: "You've been fighting against Negro rights ever since you became a Senator...
...Mississippi drawl of Senator Eastland spread through the committee room. Said Eastland to Baldwin, using no initials: "You goddam son of a bitch...
...does not impress quite so easily. He accused Rickenbacker, in effect, of staging a grandstand play. Putting Rickenbacker's newest offer into practice, said O'Connell, would mean amending the 1938 Civil Aeronautics Act to "create an absolute monopoly of north-south air transportation . . . east of the Mississippi." But Diagnostician Rickenbacker had, at any rate, called attention once more to the fact that since the war he has held the domestic monopoly on the secret of making steady profits...
...train swung 188 miles up the Mississippi to the sleepy, picturesque town of Louisiana, Mo. There the passengers witnessed the dedication of two plants, developed by the Bureau of Mines at a cost of $15 million, to convert coal into oil. This was the biggest step the U.S. had yet taken to create a synthetic oil industry against the possibility of war or of exhaustion of petroleum reserves...
...handsomely: Breadon's high-flying Cardinals won nine National League pennants, six World Series, earned more than $8,000,000. Breadon, who said that he had never seen a funeral and did not want one for himself, requested that he be cremated and his ashes scattered in the Mississippi River...