Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Approved, in the Senate and the House, and sent to the White House, a conference-tooled bill to launch the $760 million Upper Colorado River development project...
...Ohio Turnpike to the outskirts of Chicago is to be completed this fall, highway officials have arranged a series of meetings with trucking industry leaders. Truckers will be asked for their views on rates, regulations and facilities. Weeks before the road is opened Indiana will launch a promotional campaign such as Ohio is now considering, five months after its road opened. Theoretically, the best remaining route in the U.S. for a toll highway would be between Los Angeles and San Francisco, or south from Los Angeles to San Diego, but Californians are being uncharacteristically cautious about the possibility...
Whipple, who is a consultant for the Armed Forces and a member of the International Geophysical Year's central committee, praised the Defense Department's plan to launch six "earth satellites" for the Geophysical Year as a major step in the exploration of space...
Since then the idea of providing training to serve as a background for Defense Department employees has spread to other universities--exactly as Leach originally intended. At Dartmouth, John A. Masland and Lawrence W. Radwar, experts in military history, are interested and plan to launch a seminar in the near future. Roger Hilsman at the Center of International Studies at Princeton envisions a seminar "soon." Ohio State University, which has considerable funds available for this type of work is also interested in establishing a program. Other groups at Yale, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Virginia are also...
Pusey's answer, through Dean Bundy, was nothing but a polite brush-off. They agreed that the idea was "a very good and very interesting one." But the job got no further, and Leach was forced to launch the program without financial aid. Both the Law School and the Graduate School of Public Administration listed a seminar on defense in their 1954-55 catalogues, and Littauer subsequently formally assumed sponsorship of the program...