Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Best guess was that despite such tough talk, Kerala's Reds would soothe fears at first by trying to run a model state. Already the Red ministers had voluntarily cut their own pay from $155 to $72 a month. Soon they were expected to launch a well-publicized attack on the corruption which, under Congress Party rule, spread through the Kerala state government like chickweed. Optimists argued that this kind of competition would be a healthy influence on the Congress Party. "This idea." commented the Hindustan Times, "is no less foolish than keeping a cobra in the backyard...
...Founded in 1810 by a Quaker farmer named Isaac Pennock (whose daughter Rebecca gave her married name to the company, actually ran it herself for 22 years), Lukens has been nudged out of its modest niche by the big demand. Last week President Huston announced that the company will launch a $33 million expansion program that will boost Lukens' rated ingot capacity by nearly 25% to 925,000 tons...
...also takes expensive beaters. To launch its golden-anniversary line of 1957 trucks, International Harvester spent $100,000 on a closed-circuit TV program beamed at pep-talk luncheons for 10,000 dealers in 48 cities of 32 states. Hired for $7,500, Commentator Edward R. Murrow emceed the show, used his Person to Person format to interview top Harvester officers about products and plans. To promote its Yellow Pages, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. a fortnight ago hired Cinemactor Walter Pidgeon to emcee a 59-city closed-circuit TV show for potential classified advertisers and member phone companies...
...adventure was the destruction of the Confederate ironclad, Albemarle, at its anchorage in Plymouth, N.C. Several Union attempts to destroy the ironclad had already failed, and a garbled account of Cushing's plan was reported in Northern newspapers before he set out. With 14 men in a motor launch armed with a torpedo, plus a diversionary crew of 13 in a cutter, Cushing stole up the Roanoke River at night. The Albemarle's defenders were ready for him: they lit a giant bonfire which illuminated the river and revealed that the ironclad was newly protected against torpedo attack...
Cushing coolly sailed up to the log barrier, examined it, then spun the wheel and headed across the river in order to get speed enough to drive the launch up over the logs. He came surging back in a hail of musket fire that tore off the sole of his left shoe and ripped out the back of his uniform. The boat breasted the logs and hung suspended, just 10 ft. from the muzzle of one of the ironclad's 8-in. guns. Carefully, Cushing lowered the torpedo into position and gently pulled the 25-ft. line that released...