Word: delta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town of Norris, observed the astonishingly pretty girls of Memphis, and looked over the model plantation set up by the Emergency Relief Administration at Dyess, Ark. He talked to organizers of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, to planters, to bespectacled, intellectual Oscar Johnston, resident president of Delta and Pine Land Co., operators of the biggest U. S. cotton plantation. He looked in on a historic, 100-year-old brothel in Vicksburg, and talked with an educated Negro who told him that white folks, when they were sitting on the porch, complained that Negroes were lazy. He heard...
Canton, for over 1,000 years the great port of South China, lies on the delta of the Pearl River, in the centre of a broad rice-growing valley. A municipal paradox, the city's wide, clean boulevards lined with modern apartments and shops run parallel with filthy, unpaved alleys, so narrow that three people cannot walk abreast, lined with squalid one-story hovels. Fully one-third of the city's 1,000,000 Chinese live on dirty, water-logged sampans, jam-packed along the river fronts...
...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...
...name of the second Morgan partner who was in a position last fall to warn the Stock Exchange of the insolvency of Richard Whitney. ¶ After Burco, Inc., an investment trust, used 75% ($725.000) of its funds to acquire a minority interest in an inconspicuous Canadian company called Delta Oil Co., Ltd., the New York Curb Exchange suspended trading in Burco shares. The Curb said it was curious to learn what made Delta so valuable. New York Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. said he was curious to learn what connection there was between the Delta deal and the recent...
Meanwhile, heroic Leftist "suicide squads," operating in the Ebro delta to defend the besieged Tortosa, had kept Italian forces at bay for a full week. Tortosa civilians had long since evacuated their bombed, shelled and burning city...