Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern Italy, across the narrowest expanse of Mediterranean from North Africa. On the diplomatic front Vichy moved closer to Germany. On the propaganda front Berlin proclaimed India independent. On the political front Egypt got a nationalistic Government. Despite these signs, strategists said that Germany had no time to launch an offensive against Suez before June brought the need for a fresh assault on Russia...
...will in effect launch the main work of the Council. Particular emphasis in the program of the second half year is on the initiation of an intercollegiate movement to further thought on postwar problems...
...meeting Thursday night the Council on Post-war Problems will launch a two part program of activities for the second half year. At Harvard the Council will conduct extensive seminars and will sponsor weekly radio broadcasts, while on a national scale the group is taking the lead in setting up an intercollegiate magazine...
...colleges waited 125 years before they took Thomas Jefferson's advice: > Princeton next month will launch courses in Political & Military Geography and Military History & American Defense Problems, dealing not only with the war but with the peace to come. > Dartmouth has a new course for upperclassmen in Modern War Strategy & National Policy. > Published this month is a course of study-War and National Policy (Farrar & Rinehart)-soon to be used in many colleges. Written by historians at Columbia and the Institute for Advanced Study, it has already been adopted by Princeton and Dartmouth, is under consideration by Columbia, Rutgers...
Thus last week did the President launch the biggest production program in world history. For 1942, U.S. industry is asked to produce 60,000 airplanes, 45,000 tanks, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns, 8,000,000 deadweight tons of merchant ships. For 1943, 125,000 planes, 75,000 tanks, 35,000 anti-aircraft guns, 10,000,000 tons of merchant ships...