Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader's Digest also publishes Chinese, British and Latin American editions. With 8,300,000 U.S. readers, the magazine's total circulation this month was 9,675,000. In July, the Digest will launch a French-Canadian edition which will have an expected 50,000 readers, may also circulate in North Africa...
President of Book-of-the-Month and (for all practical purposes) sole owner is dark, nervous, crinkly-eyed Harry Scherman, 56, onetime advertising man. The little venture in selling books by mail, which he helped launch in 1926, has grown in membership to 575,000. Scherman has moved into an apartment in Manhattan's swank Sutton Place district, also has a country house in horsy Bernardsville, N.J. Booksellers and publishers often call him "the most powerful man in publishing...
...From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul have come in for a dose of heavy bombing, the Japs would launch any fresh offensive or organize any firm defenses in the Southwest Pacific Area...
Godfather of the Foreign Affairs Council was Cleveland's famed adopted son, Newton Diehl Baker. In 1923 he helped launch it as the Council for the Prevention of War, watched it lead a haphazard existence until 1934. Then, to an earnest, handsome young man of 34 who was teaching foreign affairs at Yale, he wrote: "The problem we are interested in is . . . that form of adult education about foreign and national affairs which will be so consecutive, continuous and disinterested as to make the whole people . . . conscious at the same time of the same set of facts. . . . Instead...
...more than 40 armored cars seized or destroyed. Measured against the hippodrome theater of Russia, the figures were not large. But considering the difficulty of transporting replacements and reinforcements to the sector, the loss was serious. It knocked out any hope that Eisenhower would soon be able to launch an offensive across central Tunisia. He had lost three airdromes, which will seriously hamper bomber and fighter operations and will give the Germans a valuable advantage. The only consolation for the Allied high command was that green U.S. troops, ruefully licking their wounds in the mountains, had learned some lessons...