Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main body of U.S. troops in Korea continued to fall back along the railroad leading to Pusan, from which they hoped eventually to launch a counteroffensive. This kind of delaying retreat in the face of much larger forces is one of the most difficult operations known, and one of the hardest on morale. Yet, U.S. forces, notably unaccustomed to such tactics, had handled themselves superbly. In a month of bitter fighting, they had gradually slowed up the North Korean offensive in the center of the peninsula...
...star halfback (1931-32), he had gone on to coaching at Holy Cross, served with the FBI during World War II, arrived at Nevada in 1947. There he did well. He got enough money from the Reno Downtown Boosters Club to attract some first-rate players, was able to launch Nevada into big-time football...
...brought out a new line of 18 models, priced $40 to $200 lower than its previous sets, RCA announced a whopping advertising program, estimated at $20 million. This week, in the Sunday editions of 40 U.S. newspapers with a combined circulation of 10,760,000, RCA will launch its campaign with 12-to 16-page inserts the size of a tabloid newspaper. Editor & Publisher thought it was the biggest simultaneous "spread" in U.S. advertising history...
...handling the Korean situation, though it would take time and lives. But what if the Kremlin's masterminds chose to set other small fires around Communism's vast periphery? Without involving themselves in declared war, they could blockade Berlin or Vienna, send Kurds into Turkey or Iran, launch Chinese Communist armies into Indo-China or Burma...
Look for RISE in unemployment . . . directly related to increased joblessness . . . There will be NO WAR with Russia this week . . . Pulp shipments from Siberia to Moscow are 37 per cent less than required for paper work necessary to launch a major conflict. . . Taxes: House Ways and Means Committee plans to repeal excise on baby oil and powder . . . Babies are already turning to light machine oil, affecting YOUR fall investment plans . . . Expect SOME strikes in the next 30-60-90 days. . . Taft-Hartley Act generally effective except in coal, autos, telephone, shipping, railroads, printing, electric, textiles, building trades, clothing, aircraft, farm equipment...