Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week from Marseille came news of piracy in the modern manner. From a hidden cove on the southern coast of France, five sea dogs had swooped out in a high-powered motor launch. Armed with submachine guns and dressed as customs men, they boarded an unsuspecting Italian freighter, locked the crew in the hold and sailed away to their pirate lair with 2½ tons of U.S. cigarets- in 20th Century Europe, a treasure as fabulous as Captain Kidd...
...calm under the harsh Riviera sun. Eighty-two children crowded the small 30-ft. motor launch Annamaria as it pulled out from the little seashore town of Loana. With shrill chatter and singing, the children (aged ten to twelve) set forth with six women guardians and three crewmen for the isle of Gallinaria, six miles away...
Suddenly one of the crew shouted something to the helmsman, but his warning was drowned by the children's singing. The launch plowed into a rusty underwater steel pylon, placed there by the Germans as an anti-submarine obstacle. For a moment the launch's prow hung in the air, then the stern slid swiftly under water. Without a punctuating pause, the children's songs became screams...
...with probably no other person, not excepting Madame Chiang, does the Generalissimo spend more of his waking hours. In Chungking days, the two would cross the Yangtze together to the presidential home high above the south bank. Watchers would see two silent figures in the Gimo's power launch -Chiang in unadorned uniform, Chen in mandarin gown, reading each other's thoughts, rarely uttering a word...
Last week a verruga expert, Dr. T. S. Battistini of the Peruvian Hygienic Institute, thought he had a promising lead: the sandfly is extremely vulnerable to DDT. When the rainy season ends in June, Peru will launch an intensive DDT attack in a test area. It will be none too soon; verruga, long unknown outside of Peru, seems to be spreading. Since 1939 outbreaks have been reported in Colombia and Ecuador...