Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Merchant Johnson, who has helped Samuel Fleisher with a modest project to collect baskets of flowers from sleek Radnor estates to distribute in the Philadelphia slums, became interested in the Cultural Olympics and promised to write a blank check to launch them if Mr. Fleisher would get a solid organization behind him. In Philadelphia no organization is more solid than the University of Pennsylvania and the pair called on President Gates. Not averse to making news or friends during his money drive for the University's 1940 Bicentennial, President Gates last week agreed...
...were sacrosanct pillars of Harvard society and above the taint of investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists to these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct detriment and danger. At present no one can point an accusing finger at the tutoring schools of Harvard Square and Mt. Auburn stating categorically that they constitute a harmful situation and tend to hurt rather than help the best...
...interest on his mortgage, with an old mule, spliced harness and last year's ploughlines. All this Dr. Tugwell classifies as prejudice and dismisses, but Congressmen at home among their constituents do not like it. In order to get more money out of Congress and to launch a new plan for lending $50,000,000 a year to help tenant farmers buy their homes, Dr. Tugwell hoped to get RA transferred to the Department of Agriculture. Only flaw in the plan was that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace did not want to take the responsibility of turning Dreamer Tugwell loose...
...damaged battleship high and dry so that repairmen can get at its vital parts. The ARD3 will t»e so big that it can take care of anything the U. S. Navy now has afloat, and almost anything smaller than the Queen Mary that it is likely to launch...
They are her cousins, Rita and Eric Parker, who want Jane's assistance in claiming a fortune that has been left her. They launch a safari under the guidance of a bring-'em-back-alive hunter named Captain Fry who plots to capture Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller). After the usual adventures, they find Tarzan and Jane, move in with them in their treetop "town house," whose butler is Cheetah, the chimpanzee. Cheetah understands Jane's words far better than does Tarzan. Though they have been living together for four years, Tarzan has been able to learn, only...