Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Radcliffe skippers Barbie Grant and Janice Stroud led the armada by taking their respective divisions. Stroud topped the competition with five firsts, three seconds, and a sixth. Beth Goddard handled the sheets, for Grant, while Maggie Hivnor and Abigail Jones shared the honors in Stroud's division...
...ultramodern supertankers and bulk carriers. By comparison, Niarchos controls 3.4 million tons and Onassis 4.3 million. Pao's navy has the distinct advantage of being practically brand new. But by early 1975, when some $800 million in new ships that he has already ordered are delivered, the Pao armada will total about 10 million tons. With an average age of less than 3.5 years, it will be the largest and newest private fleet on the seas...
...result of the worst military setbacks of the Laotian drive, the U. S. has assembled the largest air armada of the war in an attempt to bolster the stalled U. S.-South Vietnamese offensive...
...assembled the air armada as a quick reaction force designed to keep South Vietnamese troops from bogging down in Laos and to deter North Vietnamese troops from pushing across the demilitarized zone. As many as 2000 combat aircraft have been committed to the operation...
...armada makes it possible to resume full-scale bombing of North Vietnam should these North Vietnamese troops move across the demilitarized zone to attack U. S. troops acting as a blocking force on the Vietnamese side of the border...