Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FSCC has an allotment of 30% of U. S. customs receipts (about $90,000,000 a year) with which to launch the plan, if and when adopted...
...British movement and have come to regard him as one of their best friends. To them the Bose election was an unhappy augury of dire things to come, perhaps of future challenges to British power. Of particular significance was one of President Bose's recent statements: "We must launch a struggle!" Under Subhas Bose's direction a "struggle" might not be as bloodless as the civil disobedience campaigns of Mahatma Gandhi...
Most skillful is his use of symbols: in a story about the birth of a boy, fishermen launch a boat on the night sea; in a story set in conquered territory, a farmer carefully yokes his oxen; when the sirocco blows, a well-organized phalanx of shore-folk wade into the heavy sea to save men who are washed overboard in landing their boats...
...will to victory . . . cannot be equaled." Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood opened a new aircraft works at Reading and announced that Britain's aircraft production had doubled during 1938, would probably treble this year. In an article, Earl Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralty, estimated that Britain will launch a warship a week during...
...Beachcomber was made in France and England to launch Laughton's new producing partnership with Producer-Director Erich Pommer. Laughton's performance ranks with his Captain Bligh and his Henry VIII. The script, by Bartlett Cormack, is suave enough to make the implications of its story acceptable to U. S. censors. Good shot: the beginning of a profound change in the relationship of Ginger Ted and the lady missionary- when she removes a splinter from...