Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over six hollow copper cables 11 in. in diameter. In an engineering enterprise of this magnitude unique solutions of special problems are likely to occur. One such solution publicized in Los Angeles last week was the way in which radio communication is maintained with the 14 repair crews which patrol the transmission line in automobiles...
...against. Although S.W.O.C. advised its members not to vote, this was a clear majority of the plant's 1,322 workers. Mayor Daniel A. Knaggs announced that the plant would be opened by force if necessary. With the cooperation of the local American Legion whose members undertook to patrol the city, the entire police force helped open the plant. Several hundred nonstriking workmen in automobiles with horns blowing, as well as men, women and children from the town flocked along to see the ousting of the pickets...
...agreement with the Non-intervention Committee, the portion of the Spanish coast that includes the Balearic Islands was to be patrolled by the French navy. By the same agreement all warships on patrol were to remain at least ten miles offshore, though there was no stipulation to prevent patrol ships of any country from entering any Spanish harbor when off duty. At anchor last week in Iviza harbor lay the pride of the German Navy, the 10,000-ton "pocket battleship" Deutschland...
...devotee of the cartoon strip "Radio Patrol" in the New York American is one Harry Millstine, a resident of Queens Borough. Because he works in a filling station, Reader Millstine was professionally interested one day last week in a "Radio Patrol" sequence which depicted a gasoline vendor foiling a bandit by drenching him with the fuel hose...
...hours later, a hold-up man entered Harry Millstine's station, took the cash register's contents, tersely commanded the attendant to wait on a customer who happened to drive up. Mindful of what he had seen in "Radio Patrol," Millstine turned on his pump, the robber looming suspiciously over him. The pump began to click and the measuring bell had pinged once when Millstine suddenly wheeled around. Whoosh! went the acrid stream of gasoline, in good funnypaper style, squarely between the bandit's eyes. When he got them clear again, he was in jail...