Word: armadas
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Patience is the prophet's greatest ally. In 1900, three years before the Wright brothers puttered over the sand at Kitty Hawk, Wells foretold the modern air armada in The Shape of Things to Come. On the eve of World War I, after reading a book about radium, he wrote The World Set Free, a novel that predicted the atomic bomb with such imaginative precision that the late physicist Leo Szilard acknowledged that the book had inspired the building of his own apparatus for starting chain reactions...
...determined to give fits to competitors whom he calls "the plastic pop-out people"-the mass producers of lightly built fiber-glass boats, few of which are suitable for long-term living aboard, to say nothing of ocean cruising. As testament to Vick's success, a small armada of West-sail cruisers is already fitting out for round-the-world voyaging...
Eleven years ago, there was not much of Caledonian to hate. Its entire fleet then consisted of a single rented DC-7C. Now it operates an armada of 33 jets that have been carrying more passengers in and out of Britain than once dominant BOAC. This year BOAC and British European Airways, both government-owned, merged to become British Airways, and made it clear from the start that the privately owned Caledonian's rapid intrusion into their business would not continue unchallenged. "We shall match them in everything they do," warns a British Airways-BOAC spokesman...
...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...