Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provision, as drawn by House Appropriations Committee Chairman Clarence Cannon and a group of TVA advocates, was a Democratic fiasco. President Eisenhower had asked for $6,500,000 to tie in TVA's transmission lines with a Dixon-Yates line at the middle of the Mississippi River, so that the privately owned company could furnish the Tennessee Valley and the Atomic Energy Commission with needed reserves of electrical energy. Cannon & Co. sluiced off the $6,500,000 from Dixon-Yates and authorized it as a down payment on the Fulton TVA plant...
...Paul Butler, the new Democratic National Chairman, has traveled more than 30,000 miles to meet party leaders and make friends. Along the way he has suffered some minor mishaps. In Georgia, just as he was beginning to read a prepared speech, he broke his glasses; at a Mississippi dinner, a waiter spilled four glasses of milk over him, and at a California rally, a leading Democrat publicly insulted him (TIME. April 4). Last week in Texas, Democrat Butler walked, with his eyes wide open, into real trouble: he made the party split -which was healing -break open again...
...Marriages between whites and Negroes are prohibited in 27 states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas. Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming. California's 1872 miscegenation statute was declared unconstitutional...
...West Memphis, Ark. was fought on Capitol Hill. In closed session, the Democrat-dominated House Appropriations Committee cut out of the 1956 federal budget a $6,500,000 item for a Dixon-Yates transmission line. The line would pick up Dixon-Yates power at the middle of the Mississippi River and feed it into the TVA system at Memphis, for retransmission to the Atomic Energy Commission. Instead, the House Committee voted that the money should be spent to start a $90 million TVA steam-generating plant at Fulton, Tenn., which would fill AEC's extra need for power...
...biggest single consumer of water is irrigation, which has spread from a few thousand western acres in 1850 to some 30 million acres, sprawled over such eastern and southern states as Delaware, Rhode Island, Mississippi. To grow a bushel of corn by irrigation requires about 10,000 gallons of water; to grow a ton of alfalfa hay, about 200,000 gallons. At present irrigation soaks up about 100 billion gallons of water daily, almost half the water withdrawn by the entire nation...