Word: embarks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This argument means little to the Blue's young (41), soft-talking, sartorial president Mark Woods. Onetime shipyard worker and NBC vice president, he proposes to embark on a new cycle of U.S. broadcasting with transcriptions as soon as A.F.M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo's ban on recordings is resolved. President Woods thinks that war workers and others who cannot listen to the live shows in the evenings should be given a chance to hear them transcribed, that they could also provide the daytime soap operas with the competition they merit...
Prime Minister John Curtin this week proclaimed publicly what everyone had guessed privately: Australia could not possibly embark on a large-scale offensive for at least six months. "Until then, a basically holding policy will dominate tactics. There is no intention to sacrifice troops until Australia has the resources necessary for a successful offensive...
...world's largest yacht, the Savarona, for the late Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader, equipped it as ordered with public-address system, mother-of-pearl inlaid bathrooms, gold-plated doorknobs. They also designed the Santa boats for the Grace Line. But not until the U.S. Government decided to embark on a destroyer program did Gibbs & Cox really get under...
...Francisco, heavy-spending shipyard workers have boosted nightclub business 30%. Mixed with the workers are thousands of sailors on leave and soldiers about to embark, all having one last fling. But regular socialite clubgoers are fewer. The fancy Bal Tabarin has dropped pâté de jole gras, crêpes suzettes, etc., from the menu, replaced them with plain English and a hot meat special...
Lamont added that we could not conceal the fact that Russia does want world socialism, that it has a missionary spirit. However, he continued, "the Soviet Union does not want to embark on a military adventure...