Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces moved quickly to cut the escape routes. On the day that U.N. troops first entered the North Korean capital, Douglas MacArthur had called five newsmen to his Tokyo office, explained that he was about to launch another hammer & anvil maneuver. The next morning, on the sixth anniversary of his World War II landing at Leyte, MacArthur took off for Korea in his new Constellation, the SCAP...
Tall, flat-flanked General Mark Clark was the only U.S. general officer in World War II to lose his pants in enemy territory. He lost them trying to launch a small boat in the surf off the Algerian coast during his daring trip by submarine from England to meet French underground agents before the North African invasion. At other times, he served as deputy to General Dwight Eisenhower, helped make the Allied deal with French Admiral Jean Darlan, later commanded the Fifth Army in its long, bitter fight up the Italian peninsula. This week, as it must to all generals...
...colorcasts which CBS expects to launch next month will require a fairly heavy financial outlay from any of the 8,000,000 U.S. set owners who want the images to appear on their screens. To receive color telecasts even in black & white, set owners must spend $30-$50 for an adapter. When plugged into the set, the shoebox-shaped adapter (about the size of a midget radio) reduces the number of "scanned" lines on each screen from the 525 used for ordinary telecasts to the 405 lines required by the CBS system. To get telecasts in color, set owners must...
...well as the Pilot Radio Corporation, struck back fast at the FCC decision, filing for Federal court injunctions to stop CBS color from ever coming into being. Meanwhile, the Radio-Television Manufacturers Association decided to launch an all out ad publicity campaign for black-and-white television, and many a big manufacturer joined the fight by refusing to start producing adapters, converters, and color-TV sets. AS a result, CBS will have to rely on such small manufacturers an Celomat and Muntz to supply most of the early receiving apparatus...
...summer day in 1859, a blacksmith galloped into tiny Titusville, Pa. on a mule and shouted electrifying news: "Struck oil! Struck oil!" The blacksmith was W. H. ("Uncle Billy") Smith, who had helped "Colonel"* Edwin L. Drake drill the nation's first commercial oil well, thus launch the U.S. petroleum industry. As the news spread, Titusville mushroomed into a city of 9,046 and became the U.S. oil capital. So sure were Pennsylvania oilmen that the state had been endowed with a unique gift of nature that they had a saying: "I'll drink every drop...