Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When we see Kentucky and Mississippi arguing as to who was responsible for the discovery of the mint julep [TIME, July 20], without even a mention of the Mountain State, we think it is time to step in and defend our honor. The Kentucky julep didn't even become popular until around 1881 . . . In the early 1830s, a tavern, which later became the Old White and still later the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., was famous for its mint juleps . . . But there are indications, turned up by our office, that the julep was invented right...
...arrested a quiet little Memphis gasoline-station operator named James Edward ("Piggy") Moore. He was charged with vagrancy (although he had $300 in his pockets) and loitering (in his own gas station). Moore admitted that he had made extra money as a nighttime stickman at a casino across the Mississippi in Arkansas. But he always lived within the law in Memphis. When he was fined $26 and told to leave town, he decided to fight. He talked to the FBI, hired a lawyer, got backing from press and pulpit...
...Alabama hospital bed carries with it no assurance of adequate care. The state's funds work out at about $1.80 a day for each patient. Local and voluntary moneys boost the total to $4.50, whereas in hard-pressed Mississippi the total is $6.24, and in Tennessee $10. Only three of Alabama's eight sanatoriums are equipped for surgery, and some give streptomycin and isoniazid only to patients who can pay for them. One 65-bed hospital has no registered nurse; a practical nurse does her best with unskilled help...
...largest inland barge systems in the U.S., operating on 3,300 miles of the Mississippi and its tributaries in eleven Midwestern and Southern states. Physical assets: 253 barges, 4 tugs, 20 towboats, 20 new barges and one new towboat to be delivered this year, and a profitable 18-mile railroad...
...thought," said he, "that we were at peace, Kentucky with the mint julep and Mississippi with the planter's punch. Kentucky has never questioned Mississippi's glorious heritage as the originator of planter's punch. That drink is not without merits, either. It is made of rum, and rum is made of molasses from the sorghum cane that Mississippians revere as we Kentuckians love the billowing blue-grass." He paused. "It is," he concluded, "highly palatable in emergencies and an excellent mosquito repellent at all times...