Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doing good work. Police were unanimous in praising the device. In Gary, Ind., traffic deaths have been cut from 39 by mid-November in 1952 to 17 this year -and police give radar meters full credit. "It's cut down the deaths tremendously," reported Colonel T. B. Birdson, Mississippi's Commissioner of Public Safety. "On the stretch between Clarksdale and the Tennessee state line, it's resulted in a 70% reduction of the death rate...
...Test. In Baton Rouge, asked why he had rowed some 2,000 miles down the Mississippi from Minnesota in an open skiff, Jeweler Matthew M. Bakula, 72, told reporters: "I wanted to show my family I was no sissy...
Other Lasker winners: ¶ Nobelman Hans Adolf Krebs. biochemist (TIME. Nov. 2). ¶Biologist George Wald, 46 of Harvard, for exploring the chemistry of vision. ¶State Health Officer Felix J. Underwood, 71, of Mississippi, for expanding public-health services. ¶Bacteriologist Earle B. Phelps (who died in June) for pioneering in sanitary science...
FREE baggage hauling will soon be stopped by eastern U.S. rail roads. The Interstate Commerce Commission has given 58 railroads east of the Mississippi (except New England) permission to charge 25? for every suitcase and 50? for each trunk a passenger checks through to his destination. (Baggage taken along by the passenger to his seat or bed room will not be affected.) FARMERS, whose estimated net 1953 income of $12.5 billion is 7% less than last year's, can expect about the same in 1954, predicted the Department of Agriculture. Prices of some farm products (beef, feed grains, wool...
...loss for many a planter. This week the growers' Sugar Cane League, in newspaper advertisements, vowed that "this is a struggle which the farmers will not and cannot lose," threatened "mass discharges and evictions" if the strike did not end. Some planters have already imported strikebreakers from Mississippi...