Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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School integration had gone remarkably smoothly in the steamy cotton town of Drew in the Mississippi Delta. A majority of white parents, to be sure, had taken their children out of Drew High School. But those who remained got along well with their black classmates; there was not a single racial incident during the entire school year. Last week, graduation exercises brought a year of tranquillity to a fitting close. Garbed in caps and gowns, white and blacks mingled freely under the gaze of proud parents...
Calling the shooting a "deplorable and appalling act," President Nixon ordered the FBI to investigate and determine whether a federal offense had been committed. "It's a moral outrage," said Hodding Carter III, editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, "but also a chance to prove it is an aberration and not part of an unending string of events." Amid the bright promise of the new South, the murder was a tragic reminder...
Most of the nation's twelve major airlines are just beginning to pull out of the steepest nosedive in the industry's recent history, but one carrier has been cruising above the clouds all along. Delta Airlines earned $41 million last year and is doing almost as well...
Compared with many larger airlines, which have a patina of sophistication, Delta comes off as an unpretentious country cousin. Instead of advertisements and commercials featuring aircraft silhouetted against flaming sunsets or sonorous "Wings of Man" pitches, Delta serves up pedestrian slogans like "The airline run by professionals" and the only slightly more inspired "Delta is ready when you are." Instead of grasping only for the glamour routes, Delta, the offspring of a crop-dusting outfit, has patiently mined the minor metropolises of the South for 42 years. It has eleven flights a day, for example, between Atlanta and Augusta...
...Delta is looking north. It recently agreed to merge with troubled Northeast Airlines and is awaiting word from the Civil Aeronautics Board, which industry insiders believe will grant approval. At first glance, the advantage to Delta of such a merger is not entirely obvious. Northeast is as weak as Delta is strong. The Boston-based airline has had only one moneymaking year in the past 15, and has been serving barely half the New England and Middle Atlantic cities for which it is certified. Citizens of some of those towns regard Northeast's presence as a mixed blessing...