Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...putting increasing pressure on the nation's overcrowded airports. Nowhere is this more true than in California, which now has 113,000 certified pilots. Van Nuys airport, the busiest general aviation field in the U.S., is host to an army of 13,557 pilots and an armada of 1,260 planes. It is, in fact, the third busiest airport in the country, after Chicago's O'Hare and Atlanta. By contrast, commercial airfields in the U.S. have shrunk from 660 in 1966 to 400 today, of which a mere 23 serve 70% of all commercial aircraft activity...
...editors, network anchors, producers and technicians found themselves talking to one another in Thurmont's Edward C. Creeger Jr. American Legion Post No. 168, where a press center had been set up. Or they prowled the woods and roads near the gates of Camp David amid a growing armada of sound trucks. Poking through the greenery like the head of a dinosaur, the occasional giant cherry picker, hired at great expense by TV networks, hoisted transmitting antennas above the trees...
...Constitution ("... and many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky"), three times victorious over proud British frigates. Of the Olympia leading Commodore Dewey's fleet to the liberation of the Philippines, of the Yorktown and the Lexington grievously damaged as they blocked the Japanese imperial armada at the Battle of the Coral...
What makes the question of carrier vulnerability extremely pressing is the growing strength of the Soviet fleet. Today it officially numbers 2,410 ships. About 1,500 of these are small and auxiliary craft, but the rest form a powerful armada: 233 surface warships, including 37 cruisers, 90 destroyers and 105 frigates, plus 260 attack submarines. In addition, some 400 long-range bombers, including the new Backfire, are based around the rim of the U.S.S.R., from where they can strike targets...
When we talk about fun and gusto, we mean to talk about baseball. Tomorrow at 3 p.m. the Crimson will be facing an armada of shipheads from Navy. After they withstand that barge the batmen are going to face against Princeton Saturday. The Tigers are in here in a big way--like twins. The first game will start...