McComb
McComb city (1990 pop. 11,591), Pike co., SW Miss., near the La. line; inc. 1872. It is the trade and rail center of a cotton, corn, soybean, cattle, and timber area. Manufactures include wire and textile products, and there is poultry processing.
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Audiences today: why we still need New York City.(70th Anniversary Issue)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...be a dancer, you had to be in New York City. It didn't matter what kind of...Balanchine, that was the best in New York City? Many smaller dance organizations remained headquartered in New York City, but with the elimination of the...
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NY well-positioned to thrive in global economy. (New York City)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 9/21/1994; ; 700+ words
; New York City is well-positioned to thrive in the new...According to Ross Moskowitz from the New York City Economic Development Corporation, this...people, have established operations in New York City. And more international banks maintain...
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Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of American Democracy.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 9/22/2006; ; 583 words
; Second Founding: New York City, Reconstruction, and the Making of...good case for the central role of New York City during Reconstruction. Additionally...opportunities for new beginnings present in New York City between 1863 and 1877. He intends...
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New York City Affiliate targets obesity, access to healthy foods.(THE AFFILIATES: State, regional public health associations)
Magazine article from: The Nation's Health; 5/1/2009; ; 367 words
; Despite decades of health gains in New York City, obesity and diabetes continue...the Public Health Association of New York City and the City University of New...launched Reversing Obesity in New York City: An Action Plan for Reducing the...
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Track to the future.(New York City rail projects)(Industry Overview)
Magazine article from: Railway Age; 7/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...efficient rail service in the New York City metropolitan area is a top priority...transit agencies in and around New York City are putting rail projects in motion...project currently under way on New York City Transit's Canarsie (L) Line. It...
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Technological trends affecting the manufacturing sector of New York City.(paper at 'The Metropolitan Economy in the National and World Arenas' conference, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Magazine article from: Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review; 2/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...manufacturing has been declining in New York City. In 1950, there were about 1 million manufacturing jobs in New York City; in June 1994, there were 286...widespread sense that manufacturing in New York City has no future, that the decline...
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Murder in New York City. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Murder in New York City. By Eric H. Monkkonen (Berkeley: University...Eric Monkkonen's study of murder in New York City over two centuries significantly expands...and policy studies. Monkonnen uses New York City because of its size, its long history...
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New York City before cars.(vehicles, photographs, prints and posters, PaineWebber Art Gallery, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 8/1/1999; ; 553 words
; Legal parking places in New York City were not always as scarce as they...the PaineWebber Art Gallery in New York City. It is entitled The Carriage Era...1859 more than forty companies in New York City manufactured about five thousand...
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Touring New York City's ecosystem. (7th Annual Urban Forest Conference)
Magazine article from: American Forests; 3/1/1995; ; 442 words
; ...a lush, deciduous forest where New York City now stands. Today, most of that...meadows, and marshes managed by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation...five boroughs, 29 are forested. New York City's forests are a barometer of extreme...
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Housing costs cuts studied.(reducing new housing construction cost in New York City, New York)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 8/11/1999; 700+ words
; The New York City Partnership recently released results...cost of new housing construction in New York City. The report - prepared by the New York...delivered to the Partnership and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and...
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McComb, Heather 1977 –
Book article from: Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
McCOMB, Heather 1977 – PERSONAL Born March 2, 1977, in Lakewood, NJ; raised in Barnegat, NJ; mother, a talent agent; sister of...
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Brandy
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
BRANDY Born: Brandy Rayana Norwood; McComb, Mississippi, 11 February 1979 Genre: R&B, Pop Best-selling...mature, adventurous sound. Born in the small Mississippi town of McComb, Brandy began singing in her family's church at the age of two...
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Bo Diddley
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
1928-2008, African-American singer, guitarist, and songwriter who was one of the founders of rock and roll, b. near McComb, Miss., as Otha Ellas Bates. He and his cousin, Gussie McDaniel, who raised him and whose last name he adopted, moved to Chicago...
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Morning's at Seven
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
...have lived side by side in a small American town for more than fifty years. Cora Swanson ( Jean Adair) and Ida Bolton ( Kate McComb) are sisters, so there is particular reason for excitement when the youngster of the clans, forty‐year‐old Homer...
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Freedom Riders
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...For example, infuriated whites assaulted bus riders in Birmingham, Anniston, and Montgomery, Alabama, and harassed riders in McComb, Mississippi. Although the Freedom Rides exacerbated racial tension and violence, they shed new light on the plight of African...
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