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...But even before he moved from Texas to Detroit (“I was, like, 11 or 12 years old”), he had been steeped in gospel music: The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson....
...Lady Antebellum and The Dixie Chicks have erased the South and its slavery associations from their names, respectively retitling themselves Lady A and The Chicks....
...But those stories have been told elsewhere, and Leonard makes clear that what holds together this $110bn-revenue conglomerate spanning derivatives trading, pipelines, Dixie Cups and Brawny paper towels is...
...One is an overblown gold-plated Venetian fantasy, now President Trump’s Camp David; the other is an austere, elegant art museum, now enhanced by a $100m expansion....
...from fertilisers to Dixie Cups....
...Follow David J Lynch on Twitter: @davidjlynch...
...This is a Grammy-winner who has written songs for Emmylou Harris and the Dixie Chicks....
...Armstrong implicitly set his Dixie-flavoured version in New Orleans where he had grown up. New Orleans musicians from Dr John to Allen Toussaint have made their own big, easy recordings....
...Dixie Dean, for example, a celebrated player who scored a record 60 goals in one season for Everton in 1928, followed his stellar career by running the Dublin Packet pub in Chester....
...Loretta Lynn urges a husband to “take your guns and go” and Vince Gill hymns the “Dear Old Flag”; British supermodel Karen Elson celebrates “Dixie”....
...“It was going to make us $50m apiece,” Cole says, “but David couldn’t come up with money.”...
...Now David Beckham, the gifted English midfielder late of Manchester United and Real Madrid, has been enlisted to give American soccer another shot in the arm....
...But David Swift, president of Whirlpool North America, said in a statement that its existing laundry operations were among the most efficient in the world....
...David Marks of Marketplace Advisers, an Orlando-based retail consultant, points out that Winn-Dixie was dependent on a lower income customer base than Publix, making it particularly vulnerable to Wal-Mart...
...Winn-Dixie Stores defaulted on $300m of debt. The only non-US based defaulter was Concordia Bus of Sweden, which missed an interest payment on $207m of bonds....
...Charles and his brother David, two of four Koch brothers, work full time in the business and each owns 40 per cent of its shares. The rest is held by individuals with links to the Kochs....
...The pressure from Wal-Mart contributed to the bankruptcy this year of Winn-Dixie, a regional supermarket trading in the south and east....
...The intense competition in the grocery sector was underlines last month when Winn-Dixie, a regional supermarket chain that operates in the south and south east, filed for bankruptcy....
...Elsewhere, David Letterman had a dig at Teresa Heinz Kerry’s onscreen gaffe from the other night - showing the “shove it” clip, then asking, “Who does she think she is, Dick Cheney?”...
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