Word: convoying
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...Trenton, muscular Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who had sworn to resist the Sit-Down with "the full resources of the State," leaped to the rescue of Thermoid's involuntary sitters, had State troopers convoy a truckload of food and bedding to them. When the sheriff declared himself unable to enforce a court decree ordering the strikers to stop interfering with the company's operations, Governor Hoffman dispatched 30 blue-clad State troopers to stand guard...
...power at Lloyd's, and Nelson receives command of the British navy. When the French break through nelson's blocade, the directors at Lloyd's decide to put pressure on the admiralty to reduce Nelson's command and put part of the fleet into services as a merchant convoy. Realizing Nelson's need of every available ship. Blake pleads for his old comrade. Finally, in desperation, he flashes a false message across the channel from Calais reporting a decisive victory for Nelson. Feeling that the sea is again safe for shipping, the admiralty countermands its order to Nelson; luckily...
...technique of ultimatum to the Great Powers, threatening to act in aid of Spain's radical Madrid regime. Panicky rumors promptly spread that Soviet ships were being loaded with Red munitions in Black Sea ports last week, that creaking old Russian warships and roaring new Soviet seaplanes would convoy these transports into the Mediterranean, and that this time cautious Moscow was ready to risk a general...
...Scout, convoy on the first lap, had left the Ranpura's side and H. M. S. Veteran was waiting in harbor to begin the second lap, when the treasure ship steamed into the Bay of Gibraltar last week in the midst of a stiff southeaster. The gale picked up the helpless Ranpura, swept it aground on Punta Mala ("Bad Spot") in the northwest corner of the bay. Three Admiralty tugs rushed" to the rescue, but their steel hawsers snapped repeatedly in the foaming seas...
...motorcycle policeman was sufficient to convoy to their hotel home Jimmy Walker and his second wife, onetime Musicomedienne Betty Compton whom he married in the South of France.* They then read 1,400 letters and telegrams of greeting, planned his future. Possibilities included the law, the theatre, the cinema, the liquor business. That night the City of New York was gently rocked by its first earthquake since...