Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Books editor, Matthews became a general editor in 1937 and was appointed managing editor in 1943. In a decade of great expansion, during which TIME'S circulation doubled, he established higher standards of good reporting, good thinking, good writing. A year ago it was hoped that he might launch an English edition of TIME, and when that proved impracticable, he resigned in order to be free to undertake another project, not yet announced...
February: The cigarette industry will launch a ten billion dollar Truth, Crusade to show that cigarette smoking does not cause lung cancer. Televised "medical dramatizations" will disclose that tars and resins have been painted on the backs of three thousand woman with "no adverse effects." Magazine ads will portray prominent Park Avenue Russian wolfhounds smoking cork tips...
Next morning, after a dawn serenade, the visiting couple attended church, then boarded the liner Gothic. As Queen Salote and her family circled the huge vessel in a government launch, the Gothic steamed off toward New Zealand. When the big white ship was hull down on the horizon, a radio message winged its way back: "We take away happiest memories of Tonga and the great and friendly welcome given us by your people. May Almighty God watch over them...
...Papa . . . No Uncle Sam." U.S. forces were too weak in body and supplies to launch such an attack. Their two daily meals at dawn and twilight consisted mostly of sticky globs of rice and a few slivers of salmon and beef. In between, they sampled everything from roots and berries to mules and monkeys. Wrote one G.I.: "That monkey meat is all right until the animal's hands turn up on a plate." Beset by dysentery, dengue fever and malaria, badgered by enemy planes and artillery, blocked off from all aid, the men nursed their back-to-the-wall...
Challenge & Response. In no country was the report awaited more eagerly than in Argentina, which had used Milton Eisenhower's visit as the occasion to launch a new policy of friendliness toward the U.S. Buenos Aires was at first disappointed that the report did not directly mention Argentina's changed attitude. But Argentines could take consolation in the fact that U.S. business was now showing marked interest in economic cooperation, and that representatives of blue-chip U.S. firms have been flocking into Buenos Aires of late to look over prospects for capital investment...