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Word: launchful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that businessmen today cannot operate on prices that run up and down like a boiler-room thermometer. They have to have prices stable over a period of time. They make labor contracts that run for years, buy raw materials on contracts that run for years, develop and launch new products that take years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The No. 1 Phrase | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...polyglot world of U.S. music, Russian singers have always been in short supply. It is nearly a quarter-century since Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin sang his last Manhattan recital. Last week the first Soviet singer to appear in the U.S. since World War II arrived in Manhattan to launch a six-week cross-country tour. Her name: Zara Doloukhanova...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Soviet Singer | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...burdened B-52 climbed to 38,000 ft., which is the altitude where the X-15 will be launched in free flight. In the dense lower air the off-center weight called for trim adjustments, but at the critical launch height and speed Mach 0.8, there was no trouble at all. After 70 minutes B-52 Pilot Charles Bock gently eased the coupled pair back down to a landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: First Lift-Off | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...more than 1,000,000, billings to be $140 million, up 54%. American Express, which recently signed 3,753 auto dealers to honor its cards on repair jobs, has attracted 600,000 members. Hoteluminary Conrad Hilton has signed Socony Mobil's 32,000 gas stations, plans to launch a card for most consumer wants, starts with 1,000,000 Hilton-Statler cardholders. Name: Carte Blanche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CREDIT: For Everything | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Though it has been "almost universally assumed" that a decision to launch a nuclear war would be thought "mutual suicided" by either side, Ellsberg asserted, the advantages of a devastating surprise attack on vulnerable U.S. bases, combined with the fear of being liquidated first, would make Russia unwilling to hold back its forces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atomic War Possible In Spite of Danger, Ellsberg Asserts | 3/20/1959 | See Source »

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