Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooperation with the Boston Army and Navy Blood Bank, the War Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House will launch its summer drive for blood donations Monday. The campaign, which is expected to run for two weeks, will be particularly directed at the University's civilian undergraduates...
...German film trust, hired the Professor to help produce a spaceship movie called The Girl in the Moon. As a publicity stunt for the movie's premiere, Oberth was to launch a tremendous rocket of his own design at a deserted spot on the Baltic coast. The rocket failed to go off and the humiliated professor retired from public view...
Recently several generals flew thousands of miles around the world just to confer a half day with him. They wanted to launch an offensive, needed Lutes to tell them how soon it could be done. Lutes had the answers ready in a few hours. The generals flew off. Before their plane left the ground, General Lutes's well-oiled supply machine was busy on the battle to come...
...free in the days of small business, says Nebraska-born Lasch, when "the tramp printer and ambitious editor marched in the van of westward migration. . . . Every party, every faction had its own newspaper. A shoestring and the gift of gab were almost all a man needed to launch one." When business grew big, "personal journalism gave way to the corporation and the chain." The press became "an integral part of the economic structure. . . . Business had run politics and politics had run the press. Now the newspaper, as part of business, helped to run politics. They were in the big time...
...chiefs, British Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay and U.S. Rear Admiral Alan Kirk. Then Ground Forces Commander General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery came aboard, in his favorite battle dress of fleece-lined jacket and corduroy trousers. After Monty had made his report he swung down a rope ladder to his launch, and looked up again, sharp-nosed, grinning, jaunty. Looking down at the great little soldier who, more than anyone, now carried the fate of the invasion in his thin hands, "Ike" gave him a thumbs-up and shouted: "Good luck...