Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...partners ordered from Norway four reefers that were fast enough (21 knots) and big enough (400,000 cu. ft.) to deliver twice as much fruit each season as conventional ships. These "core class" reefers-designed by Israeli engineers and largely financed by government-guaranteed loans-eventually grew into an armada that by 1971 totaled 36. All were then leased to Maritime's main competitor, Sweden's Salen, for $500 million. The agreement gives the two firms control of more than half the world's privately owned refrigerated ships...
...armada attacked factories and shipyards, roads and bridges, airstrips and antiaircraft sites, barracks and supply points. The upper part of the country had enjoyed a respite since Oct. 22, and the North Vietnamese had collected new stocks of ammunition, repaired bridges, railroad tracks and oil pipelines. These were among the priority targets. But the weather was uniformly bad, and the B-52 is better at saturation bombing than pinpoint attack; Hanoi's claim of high civilian casualties was propagandistic but plausible...
...either of them emerged, the motorcyclist roared in pursuit, with a cameraman clinging to the back seat. NBC buttressed its eight-man Paris bureau with 22 temporary employees, including five motorcyclists; CBS and ABC added 17 and 14 Paris staffers respectively, and ABC installed radio-telephone systems in an armada of cars and cycles. Skirmishes between reporters and gendarmes multiplied; Keystone Cop car chases through Paris streets and country roads proliferated...
...light has dimmed considerably. The company lost money during two quarters of its 1972 fiscal year, and will close the books later this month with what Ash now calls only a "small profit." The trouble stems in large part from the Pascagoula yard, which has produced a small armada of labor problems, construction delays, cost overruns-but so far very few ships...
...hope that the U.S. mining of North Viet Nam's harbors and the resumption of large-scale bombing of its military and logistics targets might prove as effective as President Nixon had promised. Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, who as Chief of Naval Operations is ultimately responsible for the massive armada (six carriers, five cruisers, 40 destroyers) that is enforcing Nixon's quasi-quarantine, declared that the flow of supplies into North Viet Nam would be "a trickle from...