Word: delta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delta-winged, wasp-waisted Convair F106 interceptor, piloted by Major Joseph W. Rogers of Worthington, Ohio, took off from Edwards Air Force Base and climbed to 40,000 ft. (jets are slow at low altitude). Air conditions were ideal; the aircraft and its Pratt & Whitney J-75 engine were new but carefully chosen. In earlier tests, the engine had been revved up until its temperature reached the highest permissible level, and the fuel-input control was set at that point...
...related process, testosterone can be transformed into testololactone. Chemists at E. R. Squibb & Sons had found that bacteria could make testololactone by fermentation. When they tried to produce it this way in bulk, said Dr. Segaloff, the bugs rebelled and turned out instead a variant called delta-1-testololactone. It was just as well: testololactone has proved to have all the virilizing properties of testosterone. But the delta1 variant, tested so far in 24 patients, proved in seven cases to be as potent as testosterone in suppressing cancer growth, and with no virilizing effects...
...only remaining federal weapon, two seldom used sections (241 and 242) of Title 18, U.S. Code, indicated that it would ask a federal grand jury in Biloxi for indictments charging the mob with violation of Parker's civil rights and conspiracy to deny his legal rights. The Greenville Delta Democrat-Times called Mississippi-born Judge Dale's bluff better than the fulminating Northern papers: "Nothing could have occurred that would go further to establish the point that a federal anti-lynching law is necessary and that the state is incapable or unwilling to accept the responsibility of prosecuting...
...Delta Air Lines Captain Luther L. Caruthers raises orchids in his four College Park, Ga. greenhouses for sale to wholesale florists...
...month ago Old Airman Beatie moved into the shabby Hotel Delta in a San Francisco slum neighborhood. While there, he received a letter that read: "Al, how about attending a reunion of our class in Washington, D.C. this fall? It would be our 30th anniversary reunion." The letter was signed "Curt" (LeMay). It was found last week near an empty wine bottle, a yellowing Army commission-and the body of Al Beatie, 56, dead of cirrhosis of the liver...