Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hallett Abend: "The Tientsin crisis is definitely over!" Nonetheless it had provided the unique spectacle of a commander forced to bomb the daylights out of a city he was using at the same time as his base for an invasion. In the harbor meanwhile a perky little Japanese armored launch chuffed up to a Chinese warship, took it away from its Chinese bluejacket crew without a fight...
...reported $750,000 (probably less) from a syndicate headed by Sir Percy Bates, board chairman of Cunard-White Star. On Aug. 27 Lord Camrose plans to merge the oldster with his Daily Telegraph. The name Post is likely to be dropped entirely, unless Lord Camrose should decide to launch an Evening Post, a name he had the foresight to register...
...purpose of the bill is to enable a spouse who has been frustrated by the jailing or shutting up of the other spouse in an insane asylum to cite this as grounds for divorce and eventually wed again. "This bill would launch the marriage laws of England on a path of which one cannot see the end!" cried the high church Marquess of Salisbury. "There is not even any definition in this bill of either 'desertion' or 'incurable insanity' " although it would make them grounds for divorce, and the Marquess went on in his opposition...
...standing Argentina outranks all Latin America but several Argentine city and provincial issues have defaulted. Like Canada, where the sins of Alberta are not visited on the federal credit, Argentina can now afford to draw the line between local and national credit. The Argentine Republic has been able to launch a refunding program for its dollar bonds, selling 4% issues in the U. S. to pay off the old 6% series. All the rest of Latin America with dollar bonds outstanding is in default to some degree, ranging from partial payments in Brazil to complete default in countries like Bolivia...
Callow journeyed to New London, Conn, for the Harvard-Yale Regatta, joined Harvard's young, bespectacled Tom Bolles in the coach's launch as he put the Crimson shells through final practice Spins. Thus fortified, Harvard's varsity next day launched into a low, calm, powerful stroke, let Yale spend itself in a gallant first two miles. Midway up the Thames, Harvard led by a length, was gaining at 30 strokes to the minute. At the three-mile mark Yale frantically went to 34, then to 36, but Tom Bolles's first Crimson crew, ably stroked...