Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time the reason for Soviet persistence became known. Russia is clearing all consulates out of Leningrad (the U. S. has no consulate there) so that foreigners will find it unsafe to linger in that Baltic port where she plans to launch a naval building program in secrecy. The U. S. S. R. already has the world's largest army-1,300,000 men-and last week new-Navy Commissar Peter A. Smirnov declared at Moscow: "We are going to build not only the best but also the biggest navy in the world...
...would leave the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for a more congenial job with World-Art, Inc. (TIME, Nov. 1), things looked bad for Colonel de Basil's toe-dancers. Temperamental Massine had always felt that de Basil cramped his style, had long awaited a chance to launch a company all his own. The chance came when Chicago's art-conscious celebrity-chaser. Mrs. Charles B. Goodspeed, steered him toward Yeast Tycoon Julius Fleischmann, who had cherished a secret passion to patronize the arts. Upshot was the organization of the World-Art group with backing...
...glitter, cool sky and the white spots of human figures into the right places on canvas, Artist Etnier's new paintings proved him a pleasurable if not a very powerful sea-scapist. Best picture: Rough Crossing, looking down as if from a masthead on a fisherman's launch in a choppy...
...confirmation of newspaper reports the films provided a double check in almost every detail. They show the Panay, loaded with news correspondents, cameramen, embassy attaches evacuated from burning Nanking, being visited, identified by a Japanese patrol launch before the bombing. They enumerate the Panay's many flags-two flying from masts, two stretched horizontally over deck superstructures for identification from...
...missed the machine-gunning from the air of the first boatload of survivors to head for shore, an attack that killed two already wounded seamen. The boat, holes torn in its planking by bullets, was filmed later. Because the cameramen buried their equipment in the mud when a Japanese launch headed out from the opposite shore, they missed the final Japanese machine-gunning of the abandoned hull, the reported boarding of the Panay by a Japanese search party...