Word: launchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning at breakfast, when Mr. Moffett read Mr. Ickes' words, his food lost its taste. Having got his home modernization campaign well under way, he was about to launch his bigger drive to encourage private capital to build new houses. Only two days before he had told the Press that private capital was beginning to come forward in a big way, that already he had applications for insurance of $102,000,000 of mortgages, most of them for low-cost housing projects...
...Beaming with pride, Mrs. William Henry Hays, 57, president of the New York Young Women's Christian Association, stood in the centre of a receiving line at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, welcomed 1,000 guests to a Y. W. C. A. dinner. To launch a drive for $200,000, proud Mrs. Hays had brought together an imposing array of Great Ladies. Guests of honor were Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, 55, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, 61, Mrs. James Roosevelt, 80. Most venerable guest of all was reclusive Mrs. Andrew Carnegie...
...themselves and thus bar injuries received from contact with heavier aggregations. The only obstacle seen in the pathway seems to be a lack of practice and organization, but Parker feels that this will be shortly overcome, and that it will be possible, judging by this year's results, to launch another season next year at the close of House football. A tentative schedule has been arranged with games against Rivers School and Yale...
...President. A Federal board was hastily announced to issue ''tenders" without which not a drop of East Texas oil could be accepted for shipment in interstate commerce. And. as the Washington marching and countermarching continued, newshawks were informed last week that the Government was about to launch its latest & greatest drive against the recalcitrant producers...
Churchmen and laymen had heard him read a minority report, launch into an impassioned argument. Suddenly, when another delegate interrupted on a point of order, they beheld the lawyer falter. Quick tears came to his eyes. His knuckles grew white clenching the rostrum. While the Deputies hushed, he fought to control himself, finally spoke in a low, choked voice: "I find it impossible to finish what I was going to say. This means so much...