Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina borrowed, for industrial purposes, from the investors of Great Britain. Both principal and interest, about $75,000,000 to date, have been repudiated by these states...
...cents per 100 Ib. from midwest points to gulf ports. Wheat exporters were ready to leap with joy. Then eastern railroad executives (New York Central, Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Reading, Lehigh Valley) met in Washington, recognized "an emergency of national proportions," volunteered to cut their freight rates from the Mississippi Valley to North Atlantic seaports on wheat for export. The reductions per bushel (60 Ib.) would be: 2 cents from Buffalo, 4 cents from Chicago, 5 cents from St. Louis...
Show Boat (Universal). The problem of knitting episodes of a novel in a way that will reduce or eliminate, for picture purposes, the chapters introduced to show the passage of time, is emphasized in Edna Ferber's romance of Mississippi minstrels because her story touches three generations of show people and includes the life of one of them from childhood to maturity. This was not the only problem that confronted Producer Carl Laemmle when, having bought the cinema rights to Miss Ferber's book, he bought also the rights to the musical comedy that Florenz Ziegfeld had made...
Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. Largest steel producer west of the Mississippi. Main works at Pueblo, Colo. Strike in company coal mines lowered 1928 earnings (first nine months, $1.54 per share). Steel rails are its chief product...
...wife Anne in 1862 was born a third child, a son named Reed. Ten years later Abe Smoot moved his Mormon household to Prove, 50 miles south of the Utah capital, there to start a woolen mill, to import the first beet sugar mill west of the Mississippi...