Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Down the Mississippi. Russ billed them as the "Aquatots," and was as proud as the owner of a top dog act. Bubba, he boasted, could hold his breath four minutes. The lad trotted 15 minutes on a treadmill, set to duplicate an 8½% grade, to prove that his oxygen intake per pound of weight was more than that of any recorded human other than Runner Gil Dodds. Kathy caused Russ some embarrassment-sometimes she cried in public. In 1949, two Miami women complained to the police that he treated the little girl cruelly; while his car was stopped...
...Knox on charges of spying, did his irascible best to have him hanged. A court-martial saved Knox from the gallows, but he was banned from Sherman's command with a personal warning from the general that if he showed his face again, he would go "down the Mississippi floating...
Devoted Readers. The Confederacy took full advantage of such readymade intelligence. Southern sympathizers and agents floated copies of Northern newspapers down the Mississippi in bottles, or simply crossed the lines with them. Shortly before the battle of Chickamauga, Confederate General Braxton Bragg was delighted to read in the New York Times a story about a scheme for bluffing part of his forces out of their positions around Chattanooga. Bragg, forewarned by one of the country's most reliable journals, refused to be bluffed...
...Good Man, by Jefferson Young. The story of a Mississippi Negro who decides to paint his house, and white at that (TIME, March...
...Herbert Brownell last week announced the new Administration's first antitrust case. He got an indictment against the Gulf Coast Shrimpers' & Oystermen's Association, an organization of some 5,000 independent fishermen who last year caught $15 million worth of shrimp (and some oysters) in the Mississippi Sound for sale to packers at Biloxi, Pascagoula and Pass Christian, Miss. The Government charged that the association and its officers used "coercive practices" to fix prices, and "force and violence" to cut off supplies of shrimp to dealers who did not meet its terms. By these methods, said...