Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What will it cost? In the past 20 years the U. S. Government spent $3,800,000,000 on the merchant marine. "We have come today to the end of our once-magnificent armada. Of the 2,500 vessels launched in the mightiest shipbuilding program in history but a few hundred aging specimens remain." Operating subsidies alone may mount under the present law to $15,000,000 or $20,000,000 per year. With luck and $50,000,000 of taxpayers' money solvent lines may launch 65 ships in the next five years. At the moment, the Commission...
...King mean, and have given Belgium's solemn assurance, that Belgian forces will at once engage and fight any forces which attempt to pass over Belgium by air or by land to attack a country beyond. Moreover, Brussels will instantly warn London, Paris or Berlin if an air armada is heard approaching, and today the British public gratefully regard Belgium as their "listening post...
...period covered is that of 1587 and the Armada. Old England's glory is landed to the skies in a not too provoking manner, and Queen Elizabeth is never spoken of as Good Queen Boss. Swords flash, ships burn, bolls ring, and the Ruler of the Wave triumphs again. Alexander Korda's film is billed as inferior to "There Goes My Girl," but such is not the case...
...glory, according to Maurois, was not the character of her people, it was not climate or her natural impregnability, it was her isolation. Before the advent of the airplane, the submarine, and the speedier steamboat, England was open to attack from the water, and efforts such as the Spanish Armada, when fleets of sailing vessels were the chief cause for worry, bring to light her virtual isolation. To this "miracle" more than any other is due the unique individuality which exists in that small country. To this are owed the great achievements along literary and along imperialistic lines...
Beyond anthropology the connections between Spain and Ireland are clearer. Bilbao is only 660 miles from Cork. Not only potato growers but Spanish and Irish fishermen have been rivals, sometimes friends, for centuries. The Spanish Armada was wrecked off the coast of Ireland, is blamed for the "black" Irish of the Western Isles. The Irish Duke of Wellington was made a Spanish Grandee...