Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prime Minister Attlee was expected to launch the retrenchment policy next week at the convention of the powerful British Trades Union Congress at Bridlington. Last week he ordered all government bureaus to prepare estimates for a 5% cut in expenditures; if this economy could be carried through it would lop $600 million from the nation's $12 billion budget. Board of Trade President Harold Wilson ordered a 5% slash in some retail textile and footwear prices; this might ease workers' pressure for wage increases...
...bear-one of many which have taken to invading Minnesota towns-chased three Duluth youngsters out of a launch, and drifted complacently in it until the police shot...
...Circle. Kemi's lumberjacks had been on strike for higher wages all summer; last week, Finland's Social Democratic government ordered the men back to work, sent police to Kemi to help enforce order. To the Communist bosses, that situation seemed ready-made for their purposes. To launch their offensive with a bang, the Red bosses decided to start a riot at Kemi...
...James Philosophers Barbee, Schnering is also one of the nation's top farmers. Last week, on his 7,soo-acre Illinois domain, the Candy Bar King reached for a new crown. After seven years' research, grey-haired, blue-eyed Otto Schnering was ready to launch the first big-scale nationwide system of breeding cattle by artificial insemination...
...With less than 2% under erratic cultivation, the country last year had to spend nearly $200 million on food imports (chiefly wheat), a needless drain on its foreign-exchange balance. It was just such a lopsided condition that prompted Fernando Costa, minister of agriculture under Dictator Getulio Vargas, to launch the university project in 1941. Shrewdly wangling government funds a little at a time, Costa built the core of a $6,000,000 farm school that is now a model of its kind...