Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Convalescing from writer's cramp after a marathon of autographing some 4,000 copies of the first volume of his memoirs in Kansas City, Harry S. Truman visited Mississippi's Gulf Coast. Asked if the second volume of his reminiscences, to be published next February, will stir up any fuss, jaunty Author Truman grinned: "I might have to go live in Timbuktu...
Only seven states showed population declines: Arkansas by 5.8%, Oklahoma by 2.7%, Maine by 2.6%, Mississippi by 2.4%, Alabama by 2%, West Virginia by .8% and Vermont...
...best shows, typically, ran opposite each other. NBC's Wide Wide World whisked its audience all over the map. The camera lazed its way down the Mississippi, poked into a New Jersey lane where lovers walked and old men raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell...
Last week, having already expanded National's operations from seven to eleven states (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin), McNamara was busy invading a twelfth; construction of three new supermarkets in Toledo will be completed next year. With sales running 10% ahead of last year. McNamara predicted a 1955 gross of $575 million. His next objective: sales of $1 billion...
...Probably so named because the Jesuit Order once owned land at a nearby bend in the Mississippi River...