Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flares. Splashing through cold, tumbling waves, 18 of the plane's 20 passengers safely reached two life rafts they had managed to launch before the aircraft sank. But two enlisted men disappeared before their companions could reach them through the swells. Crowded aboard two rafts built to hold only six men apiece, the survivors settled down to the bruising, salt-sprayed hours of waiting...
...climb toward the top of popularity polls for the country's most popular male vocalist and bandleader, he still kept up his barnstorming. (He still averages 200 one-night stands, covers 50,000 miles a year.) A small-town boy himself, he was never too busy to launch local Community Chest or Christmas Seal drives...
...grounding of all DC-6s, National lost almost half its passenger traffic, turned in a $1,946,041 deficit in 1948. But last week, National's President George T. ("Ted") Baker was hardly acting like a man who expected to shut up shop. He announced that he would launch a new, luxury "Star" flight from New York to Miami this week, in all-out competition against Eddie Rickenbacker's Eastern Air Lines...
...report from Trieste revealed that Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, about to take a motor launch from Pola to Fasana on the Adriatic, waited on the dock while advance men made a security check. Sure enough, they found and heaved overboard a time bomb which had been strategically hidden under the marshal's seat...
...right of Communists to teach in American schools, a subject of violent dispute here last year by students, faculty members, and local legislators, will be assailed and defended anew by a four-man panel tonight at 8:15 p.m. in Rindge Teach Auditorium. The discussion will launch the fourth consecutive season of the Law School Forum...