Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the bases already won, U.S. and British airmen can do much to relieve Malta. They can cover any final blow at Rommel's rear. They can launch the continuous bombings of Italy which Winston Churchill promised last week. They can pound the Nazis in southern France. They can keep tabs on the French fleet at Toulon. They can harass, if not prevent, any Axis move through Spain toward Gibraltar and the Mediterranean ports of Spain. With ground troops they can move upon Spanish Morocco if Franco wavers in his neutrality. By the Allies in North Africa, the Allies...
Although their official fall season ended Friday, the girls plan to keep in condition this winter in anticipation of coming out into the open next spring. All that they used to take on Wellesley's more experienced eights, they say, is a new boathouse, a launch and a substitute for the invincible Cutty Sark. But until they get them, they are determined to slosh along bravely with smiles on their faces and water on their toes...
...although shipbuilders may not launch their full quota, repair yards this year have set a new and brilliant record. In a recent twelve-month period they overhauled and refitted some 5,500 ships (of over 1,000 tons each) and they did this in the incredibly short time of an average of 17 days per ship...
...week saw a great show of unity. Said Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson: "Decision to launch the Solomon Islands operation was made by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in accordance with an agreed-upon plan and was not purely a Naval decision." Said Frank Knox: "[The Army] is cooperating in every possible...
...hopes. That was last June. It took two and a half months to patch her under water, blow her free of water and mud. No sooner had she bobbed to the surface than an engine-room explosion settled her back into the ooze again. An explosion in the repair launch alongside her did not add to the efficiency of the salvage crew, which had been in a constant tizzy anyway for fear of being torpedoed themselves...