Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very long. Professional people and university students are restless over Castillo Armas' continuing government-by-decree, dismayed by his government's apparent lack of political and technical know-how. The President himself complains that most of his economic advisers are "no-idea men." And until he can launch a program to encourage business and raise living standards, the threat of a "prolabor" Communist comeback will not disappear...
ATOMS-FOR-PEACE plans are developing so fast that General Electric Co. will launch the first sales campaign for nuclear research reactors this month. G.E. will send sales engineers to universities, factories, and research companies to peddle a nuclear line, e.g., a 50-kw. "swimming-pool" reactor, a 5,000-kw. heavy-water reactor...
...find, for instance, that four whole lines from Marlowe's poem The Passionate Shepherd to His Love turn up again with hardly a word changed in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, or that after Marlowe wrote of Helen of Troy, "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships?" Shakespeare echoed him (in Troilus and Cressida) with "She is a pearl,/ Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships." But Hoffman also lays down scores of absurdities which parallel nothing but his own wishful thinking, e.g., "Here is my dagger" (Marlowe); "There...
...years, and few new ones have been born. Three months ago, in Tallahassee, Fla. (pop. 38,002), Leo William Bowmall, vice president of Manhattan's Bulkley Dunton Pulp Co., decided to try to buck the trend. He and other backers put up more than $250,000 to launch the Tallahassee Capital Post, to compete with the 50-year old Tallahassee Democrat (circ. 14,014). Last week, after barely 68 days of life, the new paper died. Even though the Post was small, with a circulation of a little more than 4,000, losses ran as high...
INLAND STEEL, seventh biggest U.S. steelmaker, with 1954 sales of $533 million, will soon launch a multimillion dollar expansion program to boost both its steel and coke capacity. Major item will be a battery of 87 coke ovens at its Indiana Harbor works...