Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American radio stations at Cristobal and Miami broadcast the SOS. Six airplanes set out from the Naval base at Coco Solo, C. Z. The minesweeper Swan was ordered to patrol off Cartagena, Colombia. Pilot Herbert Boy, a German War flyer and chief pilot of Scadta air lines, searched from Barranquilla. For two and a half days there was no trace of the shipwrecked men; hope was nearly given up. Then a carpenter's mate on the bridge of the Swan sighted the drifting lifeboat...
...boat's tender was an air-cushion which Mrs. Collings said she tried to throw to her husband. The anchor was missing. A canoe in which Mrs. Collings might have been carried off was found. Six days later a Lloyd's Harbor policeman making his routine patrol of the beach on the Marshall Field estate came upon the body of the missing man lying face down on the sand. The hands and feet were tightly bound, the body bruised, the skull horribly beaten...
Near the city of Cienfuegos a Federal patrol swooped on a little drugstore and dragged out one more leader of the revolution from his burrow beneath the counter. He was Col. Aurelio Hevia, a successor to the imprisoned General Mario Menocal. U. S. Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim notified the State Department, perhaps a little prematurely, that with the failure of the Gibara filibuster and the capture of the most prominent leaders of the revolution, President Machado's troubles were as good as over...
...most of the women leaving for mountain resorts, the men remaining to watch their property). The Navy helped out by keeping Hankow in touch with Shanghai: Chinese telegraph lines were virtually useless. A plan was under consideration to mobilize all foreign navies in Chinese waters. Also, an international river patrol will be formed when the waters begin to subside...
...revealed to the audience, is Nikki (Helen Chandler). The time is just after the Armistice, the scene is Paris, later Lisbon. The aviators, in a state of nervous disorder produced by their experiences in the War, are trying to regain their composure by conducting a light-headed patrol of Paris barrooms. They are so engaged when they come upon Nikki near the door of a crowded saloon holding, with a rapt expression, as though it were a chalice, a cocktail glass containing a set of false teeth. In company with...