Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With special reference to the President's recent decision on extending the naval patrol, the petition claims that recent Gallup Poll returns have shown an overwhelming proportion of the American people to be in support of Administration policy...
...power are prodigious. In her tanks she can carry 11,000 gallons of gasoline (largest railroad tank-car capacity 10,000). With her range of 7,750 miles, she can fly from New York to Düsseldorf and back with full load, can stay in the air on patrol missions for more than 48 hours. No speedster, she reportedly will cruise around 200 m.p.h., but she is defended by the biggest assortment of machine guns and cannon ever put on one airplane. Her bomb load is 18 tons, three times the slug packed by the Flying Fortress. Everything else...
Against these still remote possibilities, Admiral Sadler told what the Navy is doing to extend its Pacific defenses: four bases for patrol seaplanes, also usable for Navy light craft. Farthest flung will be Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, astride the Equator, 1,000 miles from the Big Ditch. There, in a twelve-island archipelago fantastically storied as a haven for pirates and more modern escapists, Navy airmen will set up patrol bases, scan the Pacific to south, west and north. Another base will be set up 550 miles north of the Galapagos, on deserted Cocos Island, a favorite picnic stop...
...British ships to put into U.S. harbors for repairs; but it would take time to ease the burden on Atlantic Coast shipyards enough to take on in full this additional job. The one really effective action that the U.S. could take this year would be to begin convoying-or patrol the sea lanes to ease the work of escort vessels...
...rise of Jackpot Riley reads like a W. R. Burnett novel. He saw Shanghai first in the '20s, a sailor off a U.S. Yangtze Patrol sloop, drinking in the dives along "Blood Alley." When he finished his hitch in the Navy he went back to the U.S., soon landed in the Oklahoma State penitentiary under the name of Johnny Becker, with a 25-year sentence for attempted highjacking. Two years later he escaped from jail, headed again for Shanghai...