Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principal economic argument against flood insurance is the nature of the risk. The most destructive (average yearly toll: some $420 million) and widespread calamities in the U.S., floods tend to haunt the same areas, e.g.. the Missouri and the Mississippi river basins, which had floods costing more than $1.5 billion from 1936 through 1951. Said one insurance executive: "Potentially, every insurance company could be bankrupted by one casualty...
...Absent: Minnesota's Orville Freeman, traveling abroad, and Mississippi's ailing Hugh White...
...tonics, Nobel Prize-winning Author William (A Fable) Faulkner, on his first visit to Japan as a star attraction of the State Department's Cultural Exchange Program, candidly entertained Japanese and U.S. newsmen at a one-hour pressoiree. Asked if he is now penciling a novel. Mississippi Squire Faulkner harrumphed: "No. I have reached the age now (57) when I work only when the weather is bad." Why did he write Sanctuary? 'I wanted a horse, and I heard that people were making money by writing novels." After the formal conference, the newsmen hung around for more Faulknerisms...
After an hour out for lunch (chicken salad, cowpeas and applesauce), the third speaker arose. He was Fielding L. Wright, who came out of Rolling Fork in the Delta country to become governor of Mississippi (in 1946) and Dixiecrat candidate for Vice President in 1948. Pointing to his longtime record in behalf of white supremacy, Wright adopted an I-told-you-so tone. Said he: "I started eight years ago trying to warn the people of the South what was taking place ... I warned you . . . They will destroy the sovereign states, and no longer will we live under a confederation...
...that, with the rain pelting down on the white schoolhouse, the meeting ended. No one of the five candidates is expected to get the majority vote necessary for nomination, and Mississippi pundits last week had no clear choices as to which two will manage to get into the runoff primary. For Mississippi voters there was no clear choice...