Word: delta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country's swankest mule race was held a fortnight ago at Greenwood, Miss. Five thousand Delta planters and cotton pickers packed the American Legion ball park for the fourth annual running of the event. The card consisted of five heats and a sweepstakes. Stubborn Delta plow mules, bedecked for superstition's sake with turkey feathers, squirrel tails and paper festoons, were mounted by Negro plowboys in overalls and gaudy silk shirts. Proceeds were earmarked for Mississippi's underprivileged preschool children...
...Flash Gordon up, took a clumping lead at a dizzy 15 m.p.h. He had the championship almost won when instinct told him to make a dash for the feed box. This enabled rawboned Pippin, Jockey Cal (for Carroll County) up, to claim title as the fastest mule in the Delta country...
...Tanana tributary. The great river, first explored by Russians and men of the Hudson's Bay Company, rises in Canada's Yukon Territory and flows north west 2,300 miles into the Bering Sea. Bud and Connie planned to course down to within 200 miles of its delta...
Over all the black, rich delta land of Mississippi, which produces 7% of the nation's cotton crop, Southern whites last week were lifting their own loads, toting their own bales. In the hills, white women and small boys sweated behind the mules down the long hot rows of cotton and corn...
...massive portals once more to swarms of exam-crammers, to be filled by hundreds of students who have stayed up all night in order to write coherent "it is therefore clearly obvious that's" in blue books, attention turns to the ungainly structure on the hallowed ground of "The Delta," predecessor of Soldiers Field...