Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tired and irritable because our greatest soldier [Montgomery] has been libelled and insulted by a scribbling American, Ralph Ingersoll, with little knowledge of military matters, to launch his best-seller [Top Secret]. . . . I also have holes in most of my shirts...
...thousands of Americans skeptically or hopefully doping themselves with drops, oils, balms, unguents, drugs, juices, tablets, shots, minerals and liquor, it was the loftiest medical project of the age. The National Institute of Health would launch (about July 1) a fight to the finish against the common cold. The aim: to discover prevention and cure for the ailment that every day keeps an estimated 250,000 Americans away from work in industry alone...
...Army has 25 V2s ready for assembly at White Sands and plans to launch them on a schedule of one a week. They should gradually push to higher altitudes -ordnance men have their sights on 120 miles-and rapidly expand man's knowledge of his world...
Cleaning House. Though their defeat was limited, the sensitive Russians characteristically prepared to launch a diplomatic counteroffensive. Poland, Russia's stooge, served notice that she would bring before the Security Council a charge that the Franco regime in Spain was a threat to world peace. Russia might also object to U.S. troops in China and Iceland...
...this year the Western Hemisphere will still be the easiest place to get to. Most ship lines now have thousands on their waiting lists. By fall, however, three liners of the Moore-McCormack "Good Neighbor" Fleet would be back on South American runs. And the Grace Line, which will launch the fifth of nine new 52-passenger "Santas" this week, would have regular runs to South America by fall...