Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they grew. Both ideas have been so successful that Nation al Research has blossomed from a $50,000 investment into a $4,500,000 research company, with 150 patent applications and profitable tie-in agreements with seven big companies using its discoveries. Last week National Research helped to launch two more big companies in new fields...
Last week Jacksonians, smarting under the Hedermans' new monopoly, took drastic action to end it. They banded together and raised $830,000 to launch a new daily, the State Times, in February. Its 672 owner-stockholders started to build a brand-new plant; they lined up newsprint and ordered $300,000 worth of linotypes, printing presses and teletypesetting equipment. They also have recruited more than a dozen staffers from the Hederman papers, hired as editor Norman Bradley, 41, who for the past seven years has been an editor of the Chattanooga Times, Southern cousin of the New York Times...
...Russians will launch a Pacific war in 1956, said Nationalist China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek this week, in an interview with the United Press. All that they are waiting for, he added, is the completion of a giant network of railroads, transecting China vertically and horizontally and linking the Asian land mass with Russia...
...above picture two Leviathan crews are submerging the float at Newell Boathouse in order to launch the new barge...
Crackers & Canals. At the thatched village of Tangan Ri, near Seoul, last week, as onlooking Koreans cried "Mansell" (ten thousand years), the first shovelful of earth was turned to launch Bechtel's big project. In two years Bechtel will build three thermoelectric plants in Korea, thus almost double the nation's power capacity to 200,000 kw. Cost: $34 million, the largest FOA contract yet issued in Korea...