Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long-range farm program, therefore, should look beyond guaranteeing income toward inducing farmers to hop the industrial bandwagon. Foreclosed mortgages or governmental evictions are not the ways to do this. Locating new industries near farm areas is. Some farm states, notably Mississippi and South Carolina, have already tried to balance agriculture with industry by offering low taxes and ready-built plants to industries that will offer farm labor new employment...
...Died. Ben Ames Williams, 63, bestselling novelist (The Strange Woman, Leave Her to Heaven); of a heart attack while playing in a curling match; in Brookline, Mass. Husky, Mississippi-born Ben Williams sweated out 83 short stories at night during his Boston newspaper days before making a sale, thereafter sold some 500. Longest of his 30-odd full-blown novels was 1947's House Divided, a 1,514-page meticulously documented account of the South and the Civil War; a sequel, The Unconquered, is scheduled for publication this summer...
Belgian Congo is a massive equatorial sponge the size of the U.S. east of the Mississippi. Population: 50,000 Belgians, 11 million Bantus and Pygmies. To Joseph Conrad, the Congo River was "an immense snake uncoiled" curving through "joyless sunshine to the heart of darkness." But Belgian bosses have made the Congo the West's greatest reservoir of strategic minerals: three-quarters of its cobalt, the bulk of its uranium. Administration: unashamed colonialism, with no nonsense about "natives' rights." The natives, under hard-working capitalism, have a living standard far above Central Africa's average...
...Mississippi Gambler (Universal-International). As he cruises along the Mississippi on a pre-Civil War gambling boat, Tyrone Power, a dashing but honest adventurer, has all sorts of remarkable experiences. He encounters a ravishing redhead (Piper Laurie), whom he affectionately calls "pepper pot," but she declines to have anything to do with him because her weakling brother (John Baer) lost an old family heirloom to him during a game of chance. Just to complicate matters more, Piper's brother is hopelessly smitten with brunette Julia Adams, who, in turn, is infatuated with Power...
...Mississippi Gambler has plenty of feudin' and fightin' with pistols, swords and fists. The men are brave and handsome, and the women good and beautiful. Evil is punished and right rewarded. With a rambling the script and lackadaisical direction, the picture, like Ol' Man River, just keeps rolling along to its predictable Technicolored happy ending...