Word: yazoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Copeland plantation in Washington County, Miss., and 200,000 other sharecroppers and renters in Mississippi, is that Less Taylor got for his lawyer old Percy Bell of Greenville, onetime chancery judge and independent as a hog on ice. Chief difference between Landlord Copeland and many another in the Yazoo Delta is that he did not get away with making a good thing of The Book. At Jackson last week, the supreme court of Mississippi reversed a Washington County Chancery judgment, declared: "According to the appellee's [Copeland's] own testimony, including his book account, there is no escape...
...Dinky" Yazoo...
...report of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Mound Bayou. Miss., TIME [July 26] refers to "what is now the dinky Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad...
...Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad operates some 1,600 miles of line in four States, connecting New Orleans, Shreveport, Baton Rouge and Monroe, La., Memphis, Tenn., Jackson, Meridian, Vicksburg, Greenville, Natchez, Greenwood and Clarksdale, Miss., and Helena, Ark. Property investment is roundly $100,000,000. In 1936 the road performed 1,085,000.000 ton miles of freight service and 60,000,000 miles of passenger service, gave employment to approximately 4,000 persons, contributed $1,625,000 in taxes in the territory served...
...thanks to Yazoo's President Downs and Reader Harris for an explanation of the service rendered Mississippi Valley citizens by the railroad's 88 locomotives, 61 passenger cars, 1,195 freight cars and 3 cabooses...