Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wesleyan chapter of Delta Upsilon voted unanimously to sever its relations with the national unit when the latter refused to recognize Edgar Beckhan, a Negro honor student from Hartford...
Consolidated Vultee, whose giant B60 lost out to Boeing's 6B-52 as the Air Forces' intercontinental bomber of the future, this week won a contract that may put it out ahead in fighter planes. It got the first production contract in the U.S. for a delta-wing jet fighter, the F-102. The new 20,000-lb. plane will be powered by Pratt & Whitney's J57 jet (TIME, May 28, 1951) and will be armed with rockets fired automatically with new controls developed by Howard Hughes' aircraft company. Convair expects its supersonic...
...which will not be in quantity production for two years, has been a longer time abuilding. Convair started work on it in 1945 when one of its engineers, Adolph Berstein, read about delta-wing experiments in wartime Germany. Not till three years later did Convair turn out the XF-92, the first known delta-wing fighter to fly. Convair turned it over to the Air Force, which has been testing it since then, while Convair has improved the design...
Before 1943, he was the Duce's tame intellectual, a pet journalist of Fascism, who, as special correspondent for Milan's Corriere delta Sera, was fed rich scoops of news on the silver spoon of favoritism. When the war began to turn against the Axis, so did Malaparte's pen. He was punished with brief confinement in a Rome prison, then allowed to retire to a Capri villa; there he was liberated by the Allied forces. Malaparte promptly put all his inside information about high Fascist circles at the disposal of the Allied command, and was rewarded...
Upon retirement Campbell became active in a number of charity organizations. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta and Phi Beta Kappa fraternities...