Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture-paper with not so big a page as present tabloids, with news digested and departmentalized somewhat as in TIME. Selling such a paper at 5? a copy, Editor Ingersoll figured he could break even with a circulation of 190,000, but it would cost $1,500,000 to launch his daily...
...Stephen Vanderburg Harkness of Manhattan set aside $10,000,000 "to do something for the welfare of mankind." This money was used to launch the Commonwealth Fund. By 1926, when she died, she had left $38,000,000 to the Fund. It is managed by Mrs. Harkness' serious-minded son Edward, who is one of the few men in this world who lie awake nights worrying about how to spend their money. The original endowment has now grown to almost $50,000,000. In 1939, according to Mr. Harkness' latest report, published last week, the Fund spent almost...
Last week, over Manhattan's WABC, the Grace Line turned radio sponsor to launch an installment plan-a twelve-day, $250 Caribbean cruise, including hotels & motor trips ashore, was offered for $25 down (before sailing time), the rest in ten monthly payments. Sailing: every Friday. Object: to entice the war-marooned U. S. cruise trade off the beach...
...with the customary fanfare. India waited. Lord Irwin sent word that he considered Good Friday an inappropriate day for pomp. Instead he went ashore unofficially to attend a three-hour Good Friday agony service in Bombay. Not until the next morning did the new ruler officially step from his launch to Indian soil while the white warships of the Indian squadron boomed 31 guns...
...heard the quivering voice of Tom Mooney, free at last in the California sun. They listened to a Cavalier officer's clipped story of his ship's disaster, thrilled to the drama of the Squalus rescue work. They heard a new Pope proclaimed. They heard three men launch a war. And, as conductor of this medley of events, they heard the cool, trenchant voice of Raymond Gram Swing, MBS's one-man brain trust on world affairs, U. S. radio's "find" of 1939. Some radio programs listed him under Dance Music, as "Raymond Gram, swing...