Word: armadas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some people say they know where to find 25,000 in silver buried on Long Island, say it would take only two weeks, cost only $500. In Tobermory Bay, off the :est coast of Scotland, dredging still goes on for the lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser...
...reported in the Harvard CRIMSON as well as in other papers of Boston, Thursday, November 26, that the Chinese students at Harvard were planning to send an armada of 2000 airplanes to blow Tokio off the map, and that I, the undersigned, was the first student to volunteer as pilot of one of the fleet of planes. This report has pushed many questionnaires...
...Spaniards of the Armada called the English sailors "pagans" because they depended upon efficiency instead of prayers, but efficiency won the fight. An American general exhorting his troops said, "trust in God but keep your powder dry. . . ." Why train children to kid themselves...
...armada was to circle east and north over Connecticut, over Ossining, N. Y. sweep down the Hudson River (so that in case of accident no plane would fall in the city), dogfight over lower Manhattan, then proceed to dedicate the new Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn...
...entire column consumed only n minutes. Most impressive was the finished work of the 95th Pursuit Squadron, commanded by Lieut. Irving Woodring, last of the Army's famed "Three Musketeers." Time and again the 18 Boeings roared down from the sky to smite the bombers. Heartened by the armada's proud showing the commanding officers determined to try another demonstration over Manhattan en route to Washington, should the weather there turn fair. In any event, Assistant Secretary Davison could point with pride to the Army's getting its 672 planes across the mountains and up the coast...