Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sometimes difficult or impossible for police in patrol cars to read the license plates of a speeder because of headlight glare, fog, murk or because the lamp supposed to illuminate the license plate is extinguished. But such conditions would not affect infrared radiation. Last week Commissioner Foote's plan was to install in patrol cars infrared cameras which would snap a picture of the license plate of a car ahead under the worst conditions. By means of a mirror arrangement the patrol car's speedometer will be included in the picture, thus giving a record of the speeder...
...blockade" of Italian submarine bases in the Balearics was contemplated by the British and French navies. More substantial was the announcement by British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to a cheering House of Commons that "His Majesty's Government will not tolerate that submarines be submerged in the patrol zones" and that submerged submarines would be attacked on sight...
...guerillas and the large amount of cash needed in the field (possibly for bribes as well as the purchase of food), it appeared the conquest of Ethiopia is neither complete nor likely to be cheap. As a further indication of conditions Armed Forces added that airplanes constantly had to patrol the railroad to Addis Ababa and, to keep peace in the country, planes dropped 6,834 bombs in a single area in three months...
...ships of the Yangtze Patrol, the hull and superstructure of the Panay was white, the stacks orange. The ships are kept immaculately clean at all times. The paintwork is scrubbed so often the paint never becomes thick enough to require chipping...
...supposed to, in a pitched battle. Eight policemen were hurt and scores of pickets arrested, including a girl who was held for assault for kicking a cop in the shins. Only contribution to the tactics of industrial warfare was the part played by pickets already in patrol wagons. Systematically as a newcomer stepped in he would be pushed out on the heads of the police. Exasperated by this kind of picketing- 10% of New York City's entire police force are now kept on strike duty-Magistrate Anthony F. Burke sentenced 73 Automat pickets to jail for as much...