Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground near Delphi for a $59 million aluminum plant using Greece's ample reserves of bauxite, and Dow Chemical has opened a polystyrene plant at Lavrion, site of ancient Greek gold and silver mines. From the rocky perch near Athens where Xerxes once helplessly watched his mighty Persian armada being turned back by the tiny fleet of ancient Greece one can see welders' torches winking blue in the three-year-old Niarchos Shipyards. Not far away, a scaffolding marks the building site of Greece's first steel mill...
...revisions of battle plans were made that finally nobody even bothered to read them. Clark's idea was to take the enemy by surprise; therefore, over the objections of the British, he forbade any bombardment of the coast before the troops were landed. But German planes spotted the armada, and German troops, ably commanded by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, swiftly took over the Italian batteries in the hills ringing the beach...
...Longest Day. On June 6, 1944, vast fleets of Allied bombers blasted the north coast of France; the mightiest armada the world had ever seen, 5,000 transport vessels and fighting ships, churned up to the coast of Normandy; 150,000 Allied soldiers smashed ashore at five points under withering fire from the Wehrmacht; 10,000 Allied fighting men and perhaps half that many Germans were killed or wounded; and the outcome of the greatest war in history was unalterably determined...
...Britain was braced for the expected shock. At Scotland Yard a special control center was set up to coordinate minute-by-minute reports from an armada of police cars. Squadrons of spotter planes stood fueled and ready for takeoff. Said Transport Minister Ernest Marples: "We kept going during the blitz, and we shall keep going...
...Peculiar Group." In an effort to duck taxes, he turned to building and refurbishing cargo ships, an operation which the West German government, eager to restore its war-torn merchant marine, made completely tax deductible. Oldtime Hamburg shipping men scornfully dubbed Oetker's armada the "baking powder fleet," but through astute management his fleet of 67 tankers and freighters has kept busy without resorting-as some German shipping companies have-to running Soviet-bloc cargoes for Castro. Characteristically, Oetker got into the insurance business to pare his premiums, built his Condor companies into one of Germany's biggest...