Word: patroled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the Lower Bay to the Battery. Governor Lehman and Mayor LaGuardia got in behind them in a big Cadillac, squired them under prodigious police escort up the West Side express highway (chosen over the Mayor's protest, instead of Broadway-Fifth Avenue because it was easier to patrol) in a triumphal journey much less uproarious than Charles Lindbergh's ticker-tape blizzard (see p. 20). Grover Whalen, resplendent in a flowing stock, received them at his Fair, where they were tootled around in a trackless motor train. Their own Empire's exhibits, including a copy...
...Louis had to be back in Hamburg in time for a scheduled sailing on June 20. Back she started. The passengers tried to keep up their spirits with games, music, religious services; a patrol was organized to prevent suicides. The last slim hope of the refugees was to find a haven in the Old World. The Nazi Government, needled by the danger of mass suicide on the St. Louis, and the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees expect to find a refuge this week for her freight in Britain, France, Belgium or The Netherlands...
...Queen of England to Canada last month, got them to Quebec two days late because of icebergs and fog. If Their Majesties had crossed last week, they would have been held up longer, for the bergs were crowding thicker into the North Atlantic shipping lanes. The International Ice Patrol reported no fewer than 800-more than in any year since 1912, when one of the 1,019 icebergs sighted that year sank the Titanic...
...monsters reported by a patrol commander last week-or rather, the one-ninth of it visible above water-was 135 ft. high, 600 ft. long. In early May, transatlantic shipping was detoured to a route 45 miles south of the preferred lanes, later moved about 50 miles farther south still...
After the Titanic catastrophe, eleven shocked maritime nations* held a conference in London which resulted in the creation of the International Derelict Destruction, Ice Observation and Ice Patrol Service. They agreed to pay dues on a basis of respective tonnage, asked the U. S. to manage the Ice Patrol. Now two U. S. Coast Guard cutters, during the berg season, patrol the danger area in alternate shifts, report every berg sighted, keep big ones under constant surveillance. They pay little attention, however, to ice fragments less than 100 feet long, for these melt away in a day or less...