Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny afternoon last week Besley sat down at his favorite window, focused his glasses on the lake. He watched a launch cut through the water, the frolicking bathers on the beach. Shifting his gaze inland he saw a woman sitting on a camp chair. She was reading a book. Walking slowly up from behind her, a white shirt in his hand, was a tanned, muscular, bare-chested man. Curious, Besley watched as the man walked along the edge of a thicket, suddenly dropped to his hands and knees and crawled into the bushes...
...race is far from over. Niarchos who has two 65,000-tonners on order in Germany and is planning a third in the U.S., will launch the sister ship of the Spyros Niarchos next week in England...
Into a highceilinged, cream-colored room in Washington's Hotel Sheraton-Carlton one night last week crowded television technicians with bulky equipment and wand mikes. Sixteen reporters, recruited at $125 a head, were ready to help TV Producer Martha Rountree launch her new NBC program, Press Conference. The object of all attention: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., invited by Moderator Rountree (at no cash fee: he got a 20-volume, leather-bound encyclopedia instead) to be the first of a series of key figures to be interviewed. There was a gimmick: Brownell was expected to make an important...
...Industries for Tata Iron & Steel Co. The plant will eventually increase India's steel output by 45% to 2,000,000 tons annually. This week another new loan-$200 million to Chile-was approved, in Banker Black's biggest deal to date. With the money, Chile will launch an eight-year agricultural development plan to buy farm equipment, build new roads and start modern agricultural schools, thus make full use of its 50 million acres of arable land, only 3,000,000 acres of which are currently in crops...
Under the bill's terms, the Canadian government will lend up to $80 million to the U.S.-controlled Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. to launch one of the biggest and riskiest construction projects ever undertaken in Canada. The company will begin building the world's longest gas pipeline, costing more than $350 million, to bring Alberta gas some 2,000 miles to industrial Eastern Canada. Trans-Canada must complete the first 574-mile leg to Winnipeg before next Dec. 31 and must repay the loan, with 5% interest, by next April. If it fails, the company will lose...