Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across Cranwell Airdrome, near Lincoln, England, stretches a mile-long runway. It was built four years ago by the Royal Air Force to launch a giant monoplane on a nonstop flight to Cape Town...
...steamed the American Merchant Line's S. S. American Merchant, captained by Giles C. Stedman, 35, hero of the Ignazio Florio rescue in 1925. A giant wave had swept overboard the Exeter City's skipper and three men, her bridge and most of her superstructure. Unable to launch a free lifeboat. Captain Stedman shot a lifeline aboard the fast-sinking freighter, by means of which the ship's 22 survivors towed over an empty lifeboat, had themselves towed to safety...
Thunder clouds rolling down the valley of the Loire last week made excited Frenchmen hurry to launch from the river's mouth at St. Nazaire the largest ship in the world...
Beginning tonight the Cambridge police department will launch a drive against all students who park their cars all night in the vicinity of Harvard Square, and along Massachusetts Avenue. Each year students are warned that cars must be kept in garages or parking places under the penalty of being tagged either by University officials or summonsed to Brattle Square Station. A through check will be made each night by patrolmen to investigate complaints made by residents around the Square...
...York, dignified officials of the Holland America Line piled into a launch, chugged out to the Narrows, and yelled themselves hoarse cheering for the life boat crew of the Statendam racing for the international trophy of the Neptune Association which a Norwegian America liner (the Bergensfjord) won for the third time, thereby making it the permanent possession of Norway. However, the Statendam crew, gratified by the attention of the Line's officials, promised loyalty and their boat sailed on schedule for Rotterdam...