Word: launching
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Yearling class, two barges took the water, but Bert Haines, Freshman mentor, says he will not make up a first and second crew until he has had a chance to look over all possible aspirants in the Leviathan. This will prevent him from going out in the coaching launch until Thursday or Friday, and until that time a formal first boat will not be selected...
...Gardiner '38, 4, James E. Gardner '36, 3, Leonard P.Eliel '36, 2, Arthur Beane '36, bow, John P. Austin '37, and cox, Edward H. Bennett, Jr. '37. This shell will take the water at 2.15 o'clock and will be followed by Coach Whiteside in the only working launch...
Specific Measures. The White Paper would lay down two new British capital ships and an aircraft carrier, launch five new cruisers, increase Navy personnel 6,000 by March 1937. It would raise four new battalions of British infantry, multiply the present Army's effectiveness several times by costly mechanization, modernize field artillery and anti-aircraft defense. It would increase the Royal Air Force from 1,750 to 2,150 planes, with more than a hint of going on to build up as fast as possible the world's most powerful air force...
...some 30 peace societies, sent President Roosevelt a protest, signed by 450 churchmen, educators and businessmen, against "unprecedented" U. S. military expenditures. Also last week, by an amoeba-like proliferation which pacifist and religious movements often undergo, part of the personnel of the National Peace Conference made ready to launch an ambitious two-year Emergency Peace Campaign. In its first year the campaign plans to spend between $500,000 and $1,000,000, of which it has raised $150,000. Acting as treasurer of the campaign is the American Friends Service Committee, that fortunate Quaker board to which Mrs. Anna...
Since 1931, Pan American Airways has wanted to launch an airline to Europe, has been prevented by inability to get permission to land U. S. planes on foreign soil. This permission was withheld because European nations insisted their air companies have an equal share in the new route. This was impossible for two reasons: 1) only the U. S. had airplanes economically capable of the passage; 2) the U. S. cannot under present laws let an airmail contract to any but U. S. firms, using U. S. material, U. S. crews...