Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite Peking's attempts to minimize the disaster, China's worst floods in a century have drowned hundreds, made tens of thousands homeless, and turned an area the size of Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi into a quagmire of disaster where millions soon might starve (TIME...
...MISSISSIPPI RIVER shipping is nearing a flood stage. Barge shipments between Cairo, Ill. and St. Louis last year reached 15,942,000 tons, up 20% from 1952, and seven times the tonnage during steamboating's golden era (the 1850s and '60s). Current shipments (mostly oil, gas, coal and grain) are bigger than...
...Attorney General of the U.S. to speak at their yearly meeting. But Georgia's Attorney General Eugene Cook, this year's president of the National Association of Attorneys General, announced last June that he was not going to invite Herbert Brownell to the 1954 conference in Mississippi next December. According to Cook, Attorney General Brownell had offended a lot of state attorneys general, notably: ¶ The Southerners, by filing an anti-segregation brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, which would make him "objectionable" to the conference host, the attorney general of Mississippi...
Last week Eugene Cook conceded defeat. The association's ten-member executive committee voted to switch the December conference from Mississippi to Phoenix, Ariz. Cook said that he would "cheerfully submit" if the executive committee decided to invite Brownell...
...Street (The Velvet Doublet, The Gauntlet) knows the value of a timely yank at the heartstrings. In his latest, Goodbye, My Lady, the yanking is continuous. His hero is Skeeter, a likable 14-year-old who lives with his illiterate uncle in a shack on the edge of a Mississippi swamp. Life is simple to the point of vacuity-a little huntin', a little fishin', some wood cuttin' when the groceries run low. "Swamp sprout" that he is, Skeeter dreams mostly of a "li'l old" shotgun. Uncle Jesse has his dream...