Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...might well be the same. Since the Eighth Army would prefer not to spend blood for territory that might later have to be given up, the U.N. would probably reduce its ground activity to token fighting, designed to hold its positions and keep down casualties. Either side, legally, could launch an offensive if it suited its purpose...
Last week 34-year-old Publisher Newton not only had his original $2,000 back, with the ninth issue of his American Heritage, he also had 10,000 readers. And he had convinced the professionals. Curtis Publishing Co.'s distributing subsidiary this week will launch a national circulation drive for American Heritage, the first quarterly it has ever agreed to handle. With the big direct-mail campaign, Publisher Newton hopes to win enough new readers to go bimonthly, trim his price from the current 75? a copy...
Pinned down in the Red River delta, General de Lattre de Tassigny dreamed of the day when he would launch a smash-out offensive against Viet Minh Communists. Last Saturday...
...Like almost every other canner, Tillie Lewis lost money in 1948 & '49 (reason: high-cost inventories and overproduction). She squeaked through only by wangling two RFC loans for a total of $1,600,000 (has paid off all but about $600,000). Tillie chose this poor time to launch another venture-a Texas company to import and can Mexican pineapples. Tex-Mex went bust, and Tillie says she lost $600,000 on the deal. But Flotill kept on growing...
...wife of this Senator swung a bottle to launch the biggest, fastest, most luxurious passenger ship ever built...