Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...planes and Italy with 2,300. Factories in both countries are working 24 hours a day; France, to finish a three-year building program within the year; Italy, to end her six-year plan in half time. Together the French and Italian air fleets would make the greatest air armada the world has ever seen, capable, so the sponsors of the plan hope, of bombing any nation into good behavior...
...Clouet; 75 by the 18th Century's master miniaturist, Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin; 56 by the British master, Richard Cosway; and one called Group of Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust of the Queen. Inside the reverse side is another portrait...
...Reeves, commanding the U. S. Fleet, announced from his flagship U. S. S. Pennsylvania grand maneuvers next spring in the Northern Pacific by 177 war boats and 447 war planes over 5,000,000 sq. mi. of strategic seaways. Exulted the 100% American Los Angeles Times: "A vast armada, the largest and most powerful by a wide margin ever assembled under a single command in the world's naval history...
...turned to letters, published his first book (Galatea), wrote many a play, some of which were staged. While he was frequenting theatrical alleys his wife left him, went home to her family. Then at last Cervantes got a job, as a collector of supplies for Philip II's great Armada against England. When this temporary job was finished he landed a post as tax-collecter...
...skirted the heat-hazy shores of Haiti, furrowed their way up toward the Atlantic Coast. Far out in the empty sea, bos'ns' whistles suddenly piped all hands to the rails. Drums ruffled, trumpets flourished and while junior officers manned bridges with stadimeters to keep the vast armada precisely in line, bands crashed out the national anthem. Twenty-one times gunners tripped the breech blocks of the 6-pounders. These lonely pomps were a rehearsal for the huge crew of 3,.000. Within a week the same show would be put on, two miles south of Ambrose Lightship...