Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India. The reasons for Chinese anxiety and that of all United Nations, including Russia and the U.S., are at least fivefold: 1) only through India can fighting China be supplied; 2) only from India can the United Nations launch a campaign to recover Burma; 3) control of India means control of shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean; 4) India's position enables United Nations' air power to strike east or west; 5) Indian supply routes to Iran and Russia will be increasingly important if Russia's southern armies are defeated...
...Field Marshal Rommel's rested, reinforced Afrika Korps seemed about to launch the drive for Egypt, Suez and mastery of the Mediterranean...
...U.S.S. Iowa, first of a class of six, went down the ways at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the heaviest* hull ever set afloat. When complete, she will weigh about 45,000 tons (52,000 with full load). To launch her 45 tons of grease were needed and she slid down into the water on four sets of ways...
...Standard's Wallace Reyburn, who had six and a half hours of it, finally had to swim off to a torpedo boat. Collier's Quentin Reynolds saw the battle from a destroyer, flagship of the raiding fleet, Associated Press's Drew Middleton from a 100-foot launch. Other U.S. correspondents: National Broadcasting's John McVane, the New York Sun's Gault MacGowan. MacGowan, a veteran roving reporter and soldier of fortune, had the unluckiest tale, got it through to the Sun, a day late, only after a long struggle with censors. Shipped, against his will...
...winner of the junior singles three-quarter-mile race in the last year's University Regatta, held the record once before with a time of 29 minutes. His new record was made after a former attempt which netted him something over 28 minutes was frustrated by interference from a launch...