Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wait-a-while school proposed to build up great forces of men, planes, land arms and ships, then launch drives to fold back the Japanese...
...torpedo crumpled her bow, probably killing every officer and man on the bridge and most of the men in the forward sleeping quarters. Less than a minute later, a second torpedo blew in the stern, exploding some of the destroyer's own depth charges. Four men tried to launch a lifeboat, but it was no use: the explosions had wrecked the davits. Realizing that they would have to drop life rafts and jump after them into the numbing black water, the four sailors went to the galley and gulped hot coffee from soup ladles. From the store room they...
...World War I: in the winter of 1917 she was torpedoed 400 miles out of Brest by U-boat Commander Hans Rose, who hit her at 3,000 yards, the longest successful torpedo shot on record. The Navy, which does not believe in ill omens, will no doubt soon launch a sleek, new Jacob Jones III, and before the shakedown cruise is over the crew will call her "Jakie...
...Bethlehem Steel, which launched 45 ships in 1941, expects to launch two ships a week throughout 1942. Its shipbuilding backlog is now three times as big as its steel orders...
...place where we can launch an all-out attack on the enemy right now is in the United States. Steps have already been taken to clear the West Coast of Axis aliens, and the F. B. I. Presumably has its eye on possible saboteurs and spies elsewhere. But in a potentially disastrous attempt to preserve our civil liberties while fighting against nations which grant none, we are permitting the infection of subversive publications to spread and do its damage unchecked. In yesterday's "Christian Science Monitor" Roscoe Drumond wrote a lead story exposing 95 pro-Axis publications which are carrying...