Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could blame Glen Luther Martin of Baltimore for beaming with pride last week. Fortnight ago the War Department announced that ten Martin bombers would take off from Washington, D. C. the Navy Department announced that twelve Martin patrol seaplanes would also take oil this month for a 7,700-mi. flight up the coast from San Diego, Calif, to Dutch Harbor. Alaska, and return. Simultaneously the War Department awarded proud Mr. Martin a $3,195,450 contract to build for the Army Air Corps 81 more of his famed "YB" bombers-most formidable weapon yet developed for aerial defense...
Robert Bogue got a pencil, computed how much water would be necessary to keep 10,000,000 comatose ladybirds at the proper humidity during shipment from his bug nursery in Glendale, near Los Angeles, to the cooperative group of Virginia growers who wanted them to patrol some 16,000 acres. Packing case after packing case was withdrawn from the 60x40 ft. cold-storage room, the water carefully doused on the moss in the cases and the huge ladybird army started east under refrigeration. Then Robert Bogue sent a bill...
...Betty" and some 60 badmen have died at his hand. For 27 years before November 1932, he was a Texas ranger. "When they elected a woman governor for the second time," he explained, "I quit." One morning last week he was in Bienville Parish, La. as a special highway patrol officer. With him were three Texas officers. Sheriff Jordon of Bienville Parish and a deputy. There they met two people for whom Captain Hamer had been look-ing for the last six months. One was a red-haired Dallas girl whose maiden name was Bonnie Parker. Her distinguishing characteristics were...
...late great Mrs. Whitelaw Reid (New York Herald Tribune), a Gainsborough portrait brought $5,100, a pair of 16th Century Brussels tapestries, $8,000, the entire collection, $155,897.50. Following a threat on the life of Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon, two guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid $10,100 for the small, precise...
...other film, "The Lost Patrol" has been hailed as one of the best pictures of the year. Supposedly, it holds the audience in suspense; its vague moral gives the impression of extreme profundity; and the lack of women in the east gives the movie goer a novel experience...