Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers. Electric signs blazed the proud boast: "At the Order of Il Duce All Goals Are Reached." Special trains, with cheap excursion fares for the occasion, streamed in with thousands and thousands of countryfolk from all over Italy. The fever of excitement blazed higher and higher as the Balbo armada covered its final...
...landed for a -goodwill" visit not at Chicago's lakefront but in Seattle's Puget Sound - they would have received a punctiliously polite welcome. But the average U. S. citizen would have felt about the same as the average Frenchman felt last month when Balbo's armada came roaring across the Alps out of Italy to blacken the skies of France. Last week France's Air Ministry an nounced a program to reassure her uneasy citizens. The French air force will stage a mass flight of its own. Twenty-two bombers will set out in October...
...Lindberghs, Charles Augustus & Anne, took off from New York in their Lockheed monoplane for a two-month tour of the Labrador-Greenland-Iceland air route now being traversed by Balbo's Italian armada. The project is sponsored by Pan American Airways, of which Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser. From New York, where their plane was nearly fouled in mid-air by flying news photographers, the Lindberghs skirted the coast to North Haven, Me., there briefly visited their infant son Jon at the Morrow summer estate...
...Shediac, N. B. en route with his seaplane armada back to Italy, General Italo Balbo cut with silver shears a red-white-&-green ribbon across what formerly was Pleasant Street, where he first set foot on Canadian soil. It became Balbo Avenue...
TIME printed a thoroughgoing appraisal of the Century of Progress and its organizers a week before it officially opened (TIME, May 22), has since mentioned its art exhibit (TIME, May 29), music (TIME, June 19), ballyhoo (TIME, June 26), reception of Italy's air armada (TIME, July 24). There is no reason to attribute national business stimulation to the World's Fair, but for a description of its funspots...