Word: deltas
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...House. Sending his right-hand man, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, to mend badly neglected and sagging fences in the northern Syrian province, Nasser took personal charge of his lagging Egyptian land-reclamation program and recently handed title to 350 new smallholders at Edku in the Nile delta. At Port Said last month, he proclaimed that his first $870 million, five-year industrialization plan was creating 800,000 new jobs, and that his $1.3 billion rural-development program would "build a house for every farmer, give every farmer a cow, and . . . change our society." The U.S. has not yet matched...
Conspicuous Consumption. In Atlanta, informed that his baggage was half a pound over the weight limit, a Delta Airlines passenger pulled out a 2-ft. roll of salami, sliced off half a pound before his plane left...