Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were just getting established, money from Russia came as a bare trickle to U.S. radicals. The Daily Worker then got only $35,000 a year from the Communist International; the Garland Fund gave it some $50,000 more between 1924 and 1928. The Fund put up $17,000 to launch the weekly New Masses, put up another $16,400 to keep it going. It sank $82,000 into Federated Press, which began as a labor news service, soon turned into an effective Communist ally. The Fund helped such Communist fronts as International Labor Defense, the Trade Union Educational League...
Farther on, the rice was shifted to a small chugging steam launch. Skillfully hidden in crevasses along the last stretches of these gorges were machine-gun nests; the valleys leading back from the river were tangled with barbed wire. On strategic crests stood concrete pillboxes; here & there were emplacements ready for artillery. But there was no artillery...
...conferee asked Mr. Roosevelt why there was no reference in the speech to Japan. The President calmly replied that there are two factions in Japan-the belligerent Army and the peace-loving businessmen. He said that harsh words might give the belligerent faction the excuse it needed to launch an anti-U.S. drive...
...launch torpedoes the Fleet Air Arm used antique wire-stayed biplanes, which carrier pilots refer to as "string bags." These planes had to approach to within 500 yards of their targets at about 20 feet above the water. They were presumably covered by a plane-hung smoke screen...
LONDON--British military experts tonight demanded the swift organization of mobile units "armed to the teeth" against any Nazi air-borne invasion of the British Isles and it was reported that Parliament will launch a "searching inquest" on the loss of Crete...