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Word: mississippis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even more dangerous than the floating leather-jacket set are the sight-seeing excursion boats which look like leftovers from the Mississippi River. For something like a dollar you can get on down in Boston and travel past Dunster House, all the way up to Watertown. It is a round trip, so you actually can see Dunster House twice...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Death of a Sculler, in Three Acts | 4/30/1955 | See Source »

...also means they can tip the scullers over twice. The river boats, for that is what they are called on the Mississippi, have a ratio of almost two children to every adult. Since there are no rocks on the ship, they are very good-natured children...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Death of a Sculler, in Three Acts | 4/30/1955 | See Source »

...Mississippi, scourged by flood and frost as well as record cotton surpluses, Bolivar County Farm Agent T. Y. Williford reported: "We are probably in as bad shape as when we plowed up cotton in 1933, or even worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Squeeze | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...scene of the play is the Mississippi Delta plantation of a lusty, crude, aging millionaire who does not know he is dying of cancer. He has two sons, one an utter mediocrity, scheming with his petty wife for the estate. Brick, the other son (Ben Gazzara) and father's favorite, has taken to drink and refuses himself to the wife he hates-the wife who intimated there was something unnatural between him and his now-dead closest friend. In an atmosphere of conjugal and family pretenses, accusations and resentments. Brick and his father, during a lacerating scene, blurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 4, 1955 | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...city of New Orleans and TIME Inc., the idea got its first big boost after last year's Rio Conference where Latin American hopes for U.S. Government loans so greatly overshadowed private economic cooperation that little was accomplished. But in New Orleans, under the spur of Shipping Tycoon (Mississippi Shipping Co.) Rudolf S. Hecht, chairman of the city's trade-minded International House, private businessmen were eager to carry the ball. The Latin American delegations came prepared with a 50-page prospectus of more than 300 specific projects in their home countries to show U.S. investors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Partnership in New Orleans | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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