Word: convoying
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Most spectacular specific suggestion came unofficially, in the lobbies. It was that the Americas should declare all waters within 300 miles of their shores strictly neutral, subject to wartime codes of search and seizure, convoy and contraband...
...with 60-odd fighting planes for Britain and France, cast off from the Bollards at San Pedro, Calif., and stood out past Point Fermin to sea. Before they passed Catalina two Canadian destroyers steamed up with bones in their teeth, slowed to freighter's pace, headed south in convoy toward the Panama Canal...
...patrol, his military measures were not extreme. They did leave the inference that Franklin Roosevelt wanted to be prepared to fight-if not against Naziism, at least for Neutrality. Said Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, explaining why he would rather keep the Atlantic Squadron near home than convoy U. S. refugees from Europe: "Well, you have seen the reports of submarines in the Caribbean, haven...
...convoy is imperative!" barked grey-haired Survivor Thomas McCubbin of Montclair, N. J. "Ninety destroyers have just been commissioned ... six billion dollars of United States Navy, and they cannot do this...
...That goes for us!" chorused the rest. A college girl gave young Harvardman Kennedy the ultimatum: "We definitely refuse to go without a convoy...