Word: convoying
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...thousand neatly dressed, ham-handed delegates of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers of America crowded into Washington's Constitution Hall one night last week and sat with eyes glued on the stage. From the side appeared an engrossed little group of men, convoying a towering figure. The audience rose, whistling and roaring. Candidate Roosevelt, sober-faced, in the glare of four white spotlights, still under convoy, crossed the stage...
...most of them were completed after the war, and some did not technically become over age (16 years old) until 1938. Small (314 ft., 1,190 tons), lightly gunned, fast (35 knots), they were designed for the use to which the British presumably will put them: long-range convoy and patrol...
...Since then about 30 more have gone down shipyard ways and into action. By last week Britain had admitted losing 33 (plus the services of 61 French destroyers). Furthermore, so many had been seriously damaged that only about 60 were available for active service in home waters, and the convoy system (largely destroyers) had become so sketchy that transatlantic freighters were thought to be on their own outside a range of about 1,300 miles from home ports. Last week the Germans claimed six more destroyers...
...been transferred at sea or at Bermuda-flew the Union Jack. Where were they going? What duties would be their detail? Their specifications (see p. 19) decided the answers to these questions. In a pinch they might be called on to do almost anything, but they were built for convoy service, and for convoy they were doubtless destined. If the Battle of Britain had become a war of attrition, they might have considerable influence on the outcome. Their principal service would be to relieve better British destroyers for probable work in the Mediterranean...
Minister Cross did not mention the fact, ascertained by neutral observers last week, that Britain's destroyers in home waters were now whittled down to about 60, with a like number laid up for repairs. To eke out surface escorts, big British seaplanes now fly convoy far out over the Atlantic. This situation underlay Britain's anxious effort to buy old U. S. destroyers...