Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since 1937, Tom Bolles will not be in the coaches' launch--Harvey Love makes his debut as Crimson coach this afternoon, while the varsity begins its bid for an Olympic berth...
...jets to make BOAC one of Britain's biggest dollar-earners. By June, the line will have five Comets on hand, be able to step up the Johannesburg flights to thrice weekly. When four more Comets are received, probably by year's end, BOAC hopes to launch Comet service between New York and Bermuda and New York and the Bahamas. Because of its rapid fuel consumption and limited range, BOAC can't use the Comet on the rich North Atlantic run. But it has ordered eleven of the Comet Us, a bigger, longer-ranged version, which...
...remained at "static" strength (about 450,000 troops), while the Communists have gradually built up overwhelming numerical superiority (about 900,000 troops), steadily swelled their air force (to at least 1,200 planes) and brought up mountains of equipment and supplies during the relative hiatus. If they chose to launch a spring offensive, Van Fleet conceded, they could hit the U.N. far harder than before. "But the chances that it will come are quite small...
...Duke of Edinburgh enjoyed his first ride in a jet aircraft: a 72-minute, 500-m.p.h. test flight over southern England and the Channel. The plane: British Overseas Airways' new Comet airliner, designed to launch commercial jet travel this spring between Britain and South Africa...
...Launch & Drydock. But he also found that despite the billions spent on the U.S. Merchant Marine, the fleet was a bad second in size to Britain's, and in poor shape. Cochrane wangled $350 million to build 35 Mariner cargo ships, the first new class of cargo ships built by the board since the war. The new class is bigger (12,500 deadweight tons) and faster (20 knots) than World War II's Victory ships. As the first Mariner slid down the ways last month, it was plain that the $350 million would be only a down payment...