Word: launching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montgomery Ward & Co. (TIME, Dec. 7) and then president, has a peculiar way of talking. It is a slow, somewhat sarcastic and testy way. Men who sit with him on his numerous directorates know that before they get down to the agenda they are likely to hear Mr. Avery launch into often irrelevant, always amusing discourse...
There were special arrangements from one end of Mother Nile to the other. Wherever the big British bird alighted for a few minutes to leave a passenger or pick up mail, in popped a Briton to felicitate and annoy King Albert. At Wady Haifa a small special British launch took His Majesty off the air liner promptly, but other passengers waited a long while for the company's big launch. When they were brought ashore at last, there stood King Albert royally rampant...
...ship larger and faster than any now afloat and the first transatlantic liner with "American type" turbo-electric drive. With a new State subsidy behind this French prosperity project, some 4,000 Frenchmen were riveting like so many steelpeckers all over the great hull last week, expected to launch her in October 1932, complete her for service...
...Leland. 89, "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry"; after a month's illness; in Detroit. A tool maker in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal (rifles) during the Civil War, he invented the barber's clippers while later employed by Brown & Sharp, machinery manufacturers. After building naphtha launch engines, Motormaker Leland turned to automobiles, produced the first Cadillac in 1904, later sold out to General Motors Corp. In 1917 he organized Lincoln Motor Co. to produce Liberty Motors for the Federal Government. Converted to automobile production after the War, the Lincoln company failed and was purchased by Henry...
...alleged understanding: Britain and France would be prepared to let Japan keep maximum war spoils in China if Japan would launch an attack upon Russia calculated at least to block the Five-Year Plan and possibly unseat the Communist Dictatorship...