Word: delta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Georgia's Muscogee County Airport, nine miles northeast of Columbus, a twin-engined plane circled and headed in for a landing. At the controls sat Delta Air Lines operations vice president, George R. Gushing, 48, a veteran pilot. Gushing and seven other Delta men (including Legal Adviser Lindley W. Camp, 52, longtime political crony of the late Gene Talmadge) were inspecting a network of newly acquired Georgia-Texas routes...
...Delta plane was not alone in the sunny morning sky over the field. In for a landing, too, came a small private plane piloted by a Columbus beer dealer, Joseph C. Fussell, 42. Before either pilot saw the other-or had time to do anything about it-the small plane drove at right angles into the big one's tail. Only 30 feet off the ground, the two planes bucked up like broncos, then crashed together on to runway No. 5, burst into bright flame. Everyone in both planes was killed...
Sometimes the fog sweeps in from Narsarssuak Fjord, drowning the Quonset huts of the U.S. airport under a grey sea. Sometimes winds from the towering snow-mantled peaks moan across the glacial delta on which the airstrip is built, setting G.I.nerves on edge. In the pale, brief sunlight and long gloom of Greenland's winter, it does not take much to give a G.I. "cabin fever"- a disease which becomes acute when the mail is late...
...first recipient of a scholarship established in memory of Newbold R. Landon '42, who died when his torpedo plane exploded after a direct hit by a Japanese anti-aircraft shell, is Charles R. Conklin '48, of Delta, Colorado, and the Brunswick Hotel, the University announced yesterday. Charles M. Gray '49, of Urbana, Illinois, and Kirkland House, was named as winner of the annual Jacob Wendall scholarship at the same time...
...think without dramatizing. Nearest U.S. approach to a good combination of thought and drama was Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, a novel about the Huey Long regime. Among the best of the rest: Conrad Richter's The Fields, Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding, Christina Stead's Letty Fox, Sholem Asch's East River, Jerome Weidman's Too Early to Tell...