Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven lines competing for a slice of the world's best air route, Northeast had one of the weakest claims. A CAB examiner had recommended Delta; New York City and Baltimore had officially endorsed Pan Am. Northeast's very weakness, however, turned out to be its strength. It was the only domestic trunk-line still on Government subsidy, receiving $1.8 million from Washington every year, and CAB felt that it had a mandate to get all U.S. airlines off subsidy and flying on their...
...prize, the New York-to-Miami run, estimated to be worth up to $5.5 million annually to the line that gets it. The run has long been the possession of Eastern and National. Last April, a CAB examiner recommended that in the "public interest" a third carrier (he recommended Delta) be added. There is no doubt that a third carrier is badly needed; even in the offseason, as at present, travelers must often wait two or three days to get seats...
CONVAIR GOLDEN ARROW jet transport will go into production with initial orders for 40 planes totaling $200 million. Trans World Airlines will buy 30, Delta Airlines will take another ten of the four-jet, medium-range (3,000 miles) airliner. Originally named Skylark (TIME, April 23), new jetliner will cruise at 600 m.p.h. (slightly faster than bigger Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8) with 80 passengers, go into service late...
...small delta wing with a fuselage about 30 ft. long. It now has conventional landing gear for test purposes, but is designed as a "tail sitter" (sitting on its tail on take-off). When rising or hovering in the vertical position, it probably depends for control on outboard thrust outlets taking power from the engine or supplied with gas by small rockets. Some of the gossips believe that the X-13 will never try to land on its tail -a stunt that is still not easy for the less critical, propeller-driven Pogo. Instead, they think, it will hover near...
...past, the NAACP has often moved in areas where maximum resistance could be expected: in the Mississippi delta area, for instance, where the Negro sometimes outnumbers the white and where feudal relationships are strongest. In the future, however, the NAACP should confine actual integration cases either to major Southern cities--such as Atlanta, Birmingham, and Jackson--where indications are that natural development has brought the races to a point where integration is possible, or to areas where the Negro population is negligible--such as the Mississippi Gulf Coast...