Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body. At the time, America's 58 million annual barrels of oil came from the east, mainly Pennsylvania. John Archbold, one of the lords of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, had snorted that he would drink every gallon of oil produced west of the Mississippi. Calvin Payne, Standard's production genius, conversant with fields from Baku to Borneo, had come to Spindletop and warned: "You will never find oil here." The U.S. Geological Survey agreed with Standard's Calvin Payne...
...flavor began after Reconstruction and the yellow fever epidemic of 1876-1878, when the white man moved away, and the street became the Main Stem of Memphis' darktown. The night life and mayhem, and, above all, the music of Beale Street became famous up and down the Mississippi...
...Soto to Tittiwee. Beale Street was a midway of dives, "conjure" doctors, fortune tellers, pawnshops and gambling joints. Colorful riverboat characters jostled streetwalkers, dope peddlers and bug-eyed farm kids who filled it from the De Soto dock* (on the Wolf River just before it joins the Mississippi) to the other end at East Street, a mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall...
...Named for Hernando De Soto, who first looked on the Mississippi River from a nearby bluff...
...crowd of 7,000 gathered near the banks of the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Ark. last week, ground was broken for the controversial $107 million Dixon-Yates power plant. Edgar H. Dixon and Eugene A. Yates, whose power companies (Middle South Utilities and Southern Company) will build the plant and sell its power to the Government, wielded gold-plated shovels to turn the first spades of earth...