Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Guard plane to a Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead to forgo the aerial junket in favor of rolling down the road a piece in Montgomery for the annual Blue-Gray (North v. South) Bowl game. Drawled Kissin...
...ride a rocket to the moon. In its own small way the Great Lunar Sale symbolized the buoyant mood, confident strength, and bright future of the U.S. economy. For 1955 was a year when the U.S. took its first step toward the moon: it went to work to launch the first earth satellite. And to Americans, who finished the greatest business year in history, nothing seemed too hard or impossible to produce...
...Stepped-up development of an atomic-powered airplane and nuclear-powered small cruiser to launch missiles...
...exporting American technical know-how to underdeveloped countries, the germ of what later became Harry Truman's Point Four Program. He resigned as Assistant Secretary of State in 1945 when President Truman appointed James F. Byrnes to succeed Edward Stettinius, but in 1950 Truman called him back to launch Point Four. As chairman of the International Development Advisory Board, he wrote the charter that still serves for U.S. policy in technical assistance...
...Cambridge Hospitality Committee began the first limited inspection of 60 rooms two years ago, but that analysis only proved it would be desirable to launch a complete inspection, Hunt said...