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Profit on the Seas. Even then, the Skouras armada will not exactly threaten that of the more golden Greeks, Aristotle Onassis (more than 100 ships) or Stavros Niarchos (65). Still, it will do what few of its American rivals have done in recent years: turn a sizable profit. Last year Skouras' Prudential Lines earned an estimated $1.5 million on revenues of $14 million; Grace earned a little more than $3,000,-000 on revenues of $100 million...
...that the first sign of Czechoslovakia's remarkable campaign of passive resistance appeared. The airport officials refused to supply the Soviet planes with fuel. At nearby Pardubice airport, the Russians had to set up their own control tower after Czechoslovak air force officers re fused to guide the arriving armada down to the landing strip. Forbidden by the Dubcek government to shoot back at the overwhelming force of invaders, the Czechoslovaks, from high army officers down to shoeshine boys, quickly established a principle and stuck to it through the days that followed: anything that the Warsaw Pact intruders wanted done...
...that they draw up a declaration of independence and make a go of it without the Mother Country, thus anticipating the end of colonialism even before establishment of the Empire. - To foster naval technology, meteorological research and Anglo-Hispanic relations, Spain's King Philip II sent his Armada on a good-will visit to Britain. On its completion, all participating mariners agreed that the cruise had given them a wealth of experience...
...armada of light planes is the R.A.F...
While it was still under way, Sir Francis Chichester's 226-day single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in the 53-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth IV received more popular acclaim than an armada of Magellans, Drakes and Joshua Slocums. Fleet Street printed reams on his every tack; BBC cameras traced his tortuous rounding of Cape Horn; the Queen knighted him in midpassage. Sailors and landlubbers alike marveled at the ability of a 65-year-old man, who had won a bout with lung cancer eight years earlier, to survive everything from chronic leaks to a capsizing in the Tasman...