Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less successful farmers, many in the South. The feedmen supplied broiler raisers with chicks, feed and a guaranteed purchase price, usually 2? per Ib. With the new methods, Southern farmers cut the broiler cycle from 15 weeks to 9, upped production 1,620% in Alabama, 1,454% in Mississippi in a decade...
After basking during late December in springlike warmth, with lawns still green and rosebushes foolishly budding, the Mississippi Valley and the U.S. East Coast last week got gales and snow and cold waves, and the spell of bad weather swept east as far as Russia. The reason for the turnaround, according to Meteorologist Jerome Namias of the U.S. Weather Bureau: the planetary wind was on holiday during the holidays. Now it is back on its job and trying to make amends...
Lost: One Sponge. Surgeon Sullenberger took his patients to Pontiac General, stayed for four years, helped to run a training program for younger surgeons. After a Michigan conviction for speeding (more than 100 m.p.h.) he went South, held four hospital appointments from Mississippi to Texas, none for more than five months. Then Dr. Sullenberger returned to Pontiac General, where he was put back on the staff after signing an undated resignation. Within 16 months the hospital's new director, Carl Flath, picked up the resignation. Dr. Sullenberger sued for reinstatement. Then Director Flath loosed his blast. In an answer...
...With Quarterback Ray Brown running and passing like a one-man backfield, Mississippi swept Texas off the field in the Sugar Bowl, 39-7. Brown passed for one touchdown, set up another on an interception, and scored two himself, one on a 92-yard...
...important committee jobs: Mills, Senator William Fulbright (chairman, Banking and Currency Committee, ranking member of Foreign Relations), Senator John McClellan (chairman, Government Operations), Representative Oren Harris (chairman, Interstate and Foreign Commerce)-a sizable share of congressional power for a state that is 32nd in population and 47th (next to Mississippi) in per capita income...