Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began cavorting on the top deck before the packed crowds of Egyptians escaping the city. Below decks in the 200-ton Dandara were hundreds more on holiday-government agricultural experts and their families, who had chartered the boat for the day, bound for the picnic grounds at the Nile Delta Barrage...
This theme-the old South in an agonizing self-appraisal-is subtly stitched through most of Baldy's work, now and then shows up with stark clarity, as in the cartoon that won him a Sigma Delta Chi award last month (see cut). No integrationist, Atlanta's Baldy crusades only for reason. "As far as I'm concerned," he says, "the only thing worse than mixing the races in school is closing the schools. But my mother doesn't feel as strongly about segregation as her mother felt...
...DELTA ROCKET will be made by Douglas Aircraft under $24 million contract. Delta, a nonmilitary rocket that will use many military components, will put 250-lb. payload into orbit 300 miles above earth, will be used until bigger booster rockets capable of launching payloads of several tons are ready...
...COACH fare cut of 25% on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m.) was approved by CAB for five airlines, National, Eastern, Northeast, Northwest and Delta. Rates will be cheaper than bus or train in some cases, e.g., New York-Miami air coach night fare one way $38.61 including tax v. $47.70 by train...
Although it is merchandised in and out of Congress as a life belt for the ordinary farmer, the U.S.'s inflated farm program (1959 budget: $7 billion) floats its biggest loans and subsidies to the huge corporation farms. Example: Delta & Pine Land Co., a 37,000-acre, English-owned plantation in Mississippi, drew $1,167,502.35 in Government price-support loans on its 1957 cotton crop, $20,761.20 in soil-bank subsidy (now partly abandoned) for not planting riceland. Example: Westlake Farms, Inc., of Stratford, Calif., did a heads-we-win-tails-you-lose business with taxpayer money...