Word: delta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Babylon on the Delta. No great U.S. seaport is typical. Each has its own strange mixture of races and cultures, each possesses its own peaceful and violent story. The story of New Orleans began when LaSalle, in 1682, erected a cross on the Mississippi Delta. A century later, the site had become a New World port...
...Mississippi, cheers went up. Cried the Delta Democrat-Times: "Mississippi has proved that she is not foredoomed to follow the mongers of ill will." Echoed the New York Herald Tribune: "Now the confirmation is at hand . . . that Mississippi [has] more to offer than Bilboism, 'magnolias and white supremacy...
...would not predict whether he would bring a better price than his rivals but pointed out that the Tufts man is 22, an ex-marine, and a fine specimen. M.I.T. has chipped in with a Delta Tau Delta, and "that's very good...
...understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed by "Delta and I will go out and butter up some of the key peasants." At last they decided that "some of the key peasants" meant "some of the big locals...
Steamboat round the Bend. The Greene Line Steamers, Inc. announced that the 250-ft. steamer Delta Queen, which it bought last year from the U.S. Maritime Commission, will soon go into drydock in preparation for Mississippi River service. Launched in Glasgow in 1924, the steel-hulled Queen has served most of her time as a West Coast ferry. In her new role as one of the Mississippi's few extant sternwheelers, she will offer -air-conditioned accommodations for up to 200 passengers on trips between Cincinnati and New Orleans...