Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a sorry dragon knows, Delta Pinney's Busy Bee liquor store, hard by a lonely El Paso alley, is a bristling castle. Instruments of defense: eight Smith & Wesson .38 pistols strategically sited behind the counter, one large shotgun-and long, lean Storekeeper Pinney, 57, who never loosed a lethal bullet during his three years on the El Paso police force, but has made up for it since. His record in nine holdups since 1940: three holdup men dead, eight wounded. None got a dime...
Under Texas law. which still unquestioningly recognizes a citizen's right to arms in home or place of business, police considered Texan Pinney had done his duty. A passionate man, whose first wife divorced him because he threatened to shoot her, Delta Pinney coolly mopped blood as the police listened. "You have to watch their eyes to stay alive," he said. "He blinked his eyes, and I killed him. I don't have no use for somebody who'll try to take anything away from...
Flying Mattress. Britain's M. L. Aviation Co. showed off the first model of a new inflatable-wing, two-passenger aircraft which may be the sky-auto of the future. Named the "Flying Mattress," the new plane features a 40-ft. span delta wing, made of light fabric and easily inflated by compressed air machines or by a regular tire pump. When deflated, the wing is small enough to fit in a car's trunk compartment. Inflated, the wing sits on posts above a 10-ft. wooden fuselage, is held in place by struts. A pusher-propeller, powered...
After an hour out for lunch (chicken salad, cowpeas and applesauce), the third speaker arose. He was Fielding L. Wright, who came out of Rolling Fork in the Delta country to become governor of Mississippi (in 1946) and Dixiecrat candidate for Vice President in 1948. Pointing to his longtime record in behalf of white supremacy, Wright adopted an I-told-you-so tone. Said he: "I started eight years ago trying to warn the people of the South what was taking place ... I warned you . . . They will destroy the sovereign states, and no longer will we live under a confederation...
...delta-winged Convair interceptor loaded with Hughes Aircraft electronic equipment, was planned as the mainstay of U.S. air defense from 1957 until 1960. Outperformed in most categories by the Voodoo and found full of bugs, it was redesigned and is at last in production, but the F-102 program will not be accelerated...