Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fastest offset presses, then sped to Latin America by plane. But last year we began printing an edition for Mexico and Central America in Mexico City; last month we began printing in Bogotá for the north coast of South America-and very soon we hope to launch a third Latin American edition in Buenos Aires...
...headlong into British gun positions. It was a moment carefully chosen: the Eighth Army had taken Takrouna and was diverting Axis strength to the southwest; since before dawn other British units of the First Army had been attacking just to the south; before the next dawn American units would launch their attack to the northeast...
Transcending all else was the hard and hopeful fact - for Germans - that Germany was still winning the Battle of the Atlantic. Churchill and Roosevelt both had indicated that the Allies could not hope to launch a major offensive before that margin was beaten in, and it was upon that margin that the Germans based their plans...
...Backward. By August 1918 a mixed collection of 200 planes was able to launch a mass bombing attack on a German advanced airfield. Unorthodox were the tactics of two pilots who landed on the field, fired machine guns into the officers' mess, took off again safely. Unwritten laws, such as wining & dining captured pilots and never shooting up an enemy plane that had been forced to land, were usually observed by both sides. Flowers floated down after an enemy pilot had been killed. Messages were sometimes dropped by German pilots, requesting clothes for some fallen Britisher who had crashed...
...coast. It is unlikely that the British can clean up the area now and gain the comparatively dry central sector before the Burmese jungles are turned into a pesthole of mud and malaria. Not until some time in October does the monsoon end. Not until then could the Allies launch a major offensive to reopen the Burma route to famished China...