Word: delta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and Government men thronged to a private farm designated by the Delta Experiment Station at Stoneville. For many a month they had heard and talked a great deal about the cotton-picking machine invented by John Daniel Rust and his brother Mack...
William E. Ayres, manager of the Delta Experiment Station: "It isn't a finished machine, but the Rusts are on the right track...
Oscar Johnston is the bulky, crinkle-eyed manager of the British-owned Delta & Pine Land Co.. whose 10,000-acre cotton plantation is the largest in the world. This year Mr. Johnston is getting 575 Ib. to the acre of "strict middling" cotton which he sells at a premium over the market price. He gets along well with his 3,000 Negroes, wants to keep them. Newshawks therefore crowded around him last week to hear what he thought of the mechanical menace. Grower Johnston was skeptical but not scornful...
...Dental Surgeons of the U. S., National Association of Dental Examiners, American Society for the Promotion of Children's Dentistry, American Dental Golf Association, American Dental Trapshooters' League, American Dental Hygienists' Association, American Dental Assistants Association, International Association for Dental Research, Psi Omega National Alumni Chapter. Delta Sigma Delta. Alpha Omega, Omicron Kappa Upsilon. International College of Dentists, American Society for the Promotion of Oral Diagnosis...
...friendly twinkle of his eye, emerged shortly after the Chinese interlude. At the University of Michigan, "Jim" Angell learned to strike a discreet mean between the propriety expected of the president's son, the humanity expected of a normal undergraduate. He became a Phi Beta Kappa and a Delta Kappa Epsilon almost simultaneously. He shortstopped for the baseball team and won the University and State tennis championships. He played a clarinet in the University band and fell in love with (and later married) Student Marion Isabel Watrous of Des Moines, Iowa. By the time President McKinley borrowed Michigan...