Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inter-House Debate Council, a new organization designed to give upperclassmen a chance to debate, will formally launch its operations next week...
...wily Japanese tactic in World War II was to launch balloons carrying small explosive or incendiary bombs in the hope that they would drift across the Pacific and land in the U.S. Some of them actually did land in the Pacific Northwest, and although they caused almost no damage, they proved that the westerly winds at high altitude are fine balloon carriers. Last week the U.S. Navy was following the Japanese lead by launching balloons of plastic film from Oppama, Japan. Instead of bombs the balloons carried instruments to report weather conditions encountered on their long voyages...
Best trick of all in the Navy's future will be to launch missiles from submarines submerged. If the submarine is nuclear, with an almost unlimited cruising period, it can be stationed for months off an enemy coast. This will make it a fine retaliatory weapon...
...vaccine allotted to private physicians has been reported used. Demand is well below expectations in Georgia, where 700,000 children have yet to get their first shots. Parents have failed to take advantage of available vaccine in North Carolina to such an extent that the state may have to launch a campaign to move its vaccine. (Vaccine tends to lose its effectiveness after being stored for six months...
...will launch its space satellite. The Russians will shoot it down, then explain, "It looked just like a trial balloon" and pay half the cost. Senator East land will demand that the U.S. secede from the U.N." and lynch them Ruskies." Russia, in the meantime, will announce the installation of the "Peasant Boys' Administration; what is good for General Zhukov is good for the Soviet Union." Guatemala will claim...