Word: patroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atque Vale. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Undertaker Ottavio Caratozzollo delivered his granddaughter, a glb. girl, a few feet from the embalmed body of Frank Lo-Verso, whose favorite remark had been, "When I die, a baby will be born to take my place." Copstretician. In Manhattan, Patrol man Francis Devlin, in his 19th year on the force, delivered his sixth baby...
Reason for all this was that a U.S. patrol had captured the command post. The invitation to enter was shouted by its commander Lieut. Paul M. Koerner of Pontiac, 111. Der Herr Hauptmann was in a ravine outside, quite dead...
...main force concentrates on Norfolk. Armed with pistols and night sticks, they patrol on foot by twos, ride along in the city's prowl cars, or cover the county roads in trucks. They arrest all drunk and disorderly servicemen and all out-of-uniform sailors...
Back to the Hills. The Patrol's success has earned Senior Patrol Officer Ingoldsby a bid for a postwar job in the Navy. To this he has emphatically turned two deaf ears. A self-made man who went through the National Police Academy after quitting high school to work, Ingoldsby thinks little of his postwar Navy prospects. When the war is over, he intends to make a beeline for his job in Virginia's peaceful Blue Ridge mountains, where there are no sailors...
...surgeons have found that it is often a good idea for every member of a crew on night patrol to carry two five-milligram benzedrine pills, take one if he is mentally exhausted (e.g., in the case of a pilot), two if he is physically exhausted. Men should wait for the exhaustion point before taking benzedrine, because the drug works best if it is taken then. Doses can be repeated, but nobody should take more than 30 milligrams in one week. Sleep postponed by a "benzedrine alert" must be made up later on. To end a benzedrine alert, take...