Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sled inverts the V, also flattens toward the stern. Both are built to slide along the surface rather t h a n t o p l o u g h t h r o u g h t h e w a t er. *A name derived from electric launch comp a n y, h o l d i n g c o m p a n y o f E l c o
...pilot, Engineer Sutter, Radioman Roe and Newsman Floyd Gibbons. In Liberty's red leather and lacquer cabin Publisher Patterson studied maps and winds while Daughter Alicia snuggled on a chaise-longue reading. . . . They stayed at Havana four days. A "norther" swept across the bay. nearly bumped a bulky launch against the Liberty. The crew watched a jai alai tournament and cock fights. Finally they took off for Santiago de Cuba, stopping en route at Manzanillo to avoid a squall and because Publisher Patterson liked the name. At Santiago they visited Spanish War battlefields, ate melons, saw the straits where...
Twenty-one guns were fired again by the harbor forts. The Hoovers went out to where the U. S. S. Utah lay in waiting. The harbor was not smooth. U. S. newsgatherers following by launch were thoroughly seasick. The Utah sailed for Rio de Janeiro with the Hoovers installed in admiral's quarters, the same quarters that General Pershing occupied when the Utah brought his mission home from Peru's centenary celebration...
...Johns Hopkins a school of international relations which will commemorate by name the late Ambassador Walter Hines Page has been planned since 1925. A board of trustees headed by Owen D. Young is now raising $1,000,000 to launch the school...
...counsel, Paul Drenner Cravath and Elihu Root. He helped elect a Mayor of New York, and did more than anyone else to secure President Cleveland a second term in the White House. He fought the Seaboard Air Line Railway until he beat it and he helped launch the Southern Railway. In one of his most notable financial prodigies, the organization of the American Tobacco Co., with which he gained a two-thirds interest in the foreign market, he was comparatively alone. King Leopold II asked him for help in exploiting African diamond mines; and in rooms where chandeliers sparkled dimly...