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Word: mississippis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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INLAND WATERWAYS in U.S. are carrying 20% more traffic this year than 1955's record 867 million tons. Business is up 20% on Tennessee River, 15% on lower Mississippi and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (TIME COLOR PAGES, Oct. 1). Total U.S. waterborne traffic-including imports and exports, coastal, lake, inland waterways-topped 1 billion tons last year for first time in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

Between Tsinan, an industrial city in the Chinese province of Shantung, and the Mississippi valley of the U.S.A. lie 8,000 miles, an ocean, half a continent-and an ideological infinity. One dark, rainswept night last week, two ex-G.I.s of the Korean war completed the long journey between those points. For Arlie Howard Pate, 25, the trip ended near Carbondale, Ill.; for Aaron P. Wilson, 24, it was over at Urania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEQUELS: Turncoats' Odyssey | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Students from Arizona, Mississippi, Nebraska. North Dakota, and Oklahoma must register their cars here after a definite time limit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: War Against Out-of-State Cars Pursued | 12/15/1956 | See Source »

...official revealed that 35 states have reciprocal agreements with Massachusetts which permit students to operate here on their home state registrations for an unlimited length of time. "Students from eight other states have the same privileges unless they are employed here," he added. Only Arizona, Mississippi, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Oklahoma cars have a limited time to register here...

Author: By Robert L. Chazin and Blaise G.A. Pasztory, S | Title: Most Car-Owners Exempt From Crackdown Threat | 12/13/1956 | See Source »

...single U.S. shipyard had a new ship-construction contract; today 58 tankers and cargo ships are being built and 23 more are on order. The New York Shipbuilding Corp. has $70 million worth of 1956 orders for tankers. Newport News has a quarter-billion-dollar backlog of orders. Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., biggest in the Deep South, has enough contracts to keep it busy through most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: The Boom from Abroad | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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