Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word book. In June he left Falmouth with Wilbur Thomas, 25, an American acquaintance who had come from California to sail the last lap with him. Prime experience on a 75-day Atlantic crossing was getting overhauled in the Bay of Biscay by a Spanish Rightist patrol and being jailed overnight as would-be assassins of General Franco...
...from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training ships the men will have two famous windjammers-the square-rigged Tusitala, once the hobby of retired Steelman James A. Farrell, and the Joseph Conrad, in which Author Alan Villiers used to sail all over the world-and the Coast Guard patrol boat Faunce. Later, the freighter Edgemoor, now being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will require three months, during which the enrolled seamen will be paid $36 a month. First month will stress the rudiments of sailing ("even a steward should be able...
...treaty U. S. gunboats have the right to patrol the Yangtze River, an international waterway. The war between Japan and China has not legally affected these rights. The U. S. river gunboat Monocacy (pronounced mo-nock'-asy) has recently been on refugee work near Kuikiang, 450 miles upstream from Shanghai. Low on food and fuel, the coal-burning ship was scheduled to go to Shanghai for provisioning...
...agreement. Soon to be broached to the Exchange, therefore, are: 1) a depository for customers' funds now kept helter-skelter in brokerage houses; 2) a trial segregation of broker-dealer functions; 3) assumption by the Exchange of full policing duties so that SEC will not have to patrol Wall Street; 4) plans for increasing the volume of bond trading on the floor; 5) possible rearrangement of commissions. So long as the market continues to climb, these or any other reforms should not be difficult. If the market crashes, Martin expects to be the goat...
Among the 125 applicants, 27 survived moral examination. Schoolboy Welliver was chosen because he was the best actor of this stainless group. His specifications : 5 ft. 10 in. tall, 148 lb., blue eyes, brown hair, a Boy Scout patrol leader...