Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...move caused some good guesses (see p. 35). Five destroyers and a seaplane tender slipped out of Key West; three others, attended by eleven seaplanes, followed them. At the same time 1,200 Air Corps officers and men arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a squadron of naval patrol planes. Diplomatically, Secretary Hull called attention to the presence of this fleet near Martinique by announcing that these were merely routine Navy maneuvers...
...being dragged around to the shelters. She was suffering." While food-profiteering also rose, a new racket appeared, as nifty as it was heartless. Early in the day, racketeers' stooges plant bundles of rags to simulate blanket rolls along 20 or more sleeping spaces in tube stations, patrol them till the evening rush. Likely prospects are then approached with a whispered "I was keeping this place for a pal of mine, lydy, but you can 'ave it-for a bob." Prices range from sixpence in crowded stations to two-and-six in deeper, cleaner stations. Average net take...
...freighter Helgoland without the formality of clearance papers. Aboard were six German aviators and 14 mechanics of the defunct Scadta Airline. Colombian Army airplanes took to the skies above the Caribbean, located the Helgoland plowing eastward in the direction of Martinique, reported her position to a U. S. neutrality patrol squadron steaming southward under sealed orders...
...took 40 Britons prisoner. They claimed another raid by German destroyers in the mouth of Bristol Channel, in which they engaged a British cruiser squadron, torpedoing one vessel. They said they sank a British submarine off Le Havre. They claimed that their coast artillery kept Britain's Channel patrol of destroyers bottled up in Dover. There were stories that Germany would invade Eire and Iceland as a prelude to ultimate invasion of Great Britain...
Bought for $150,000 by the U. S. Navy for patrol service was the 267-ft. Hi-Esmaro, palatial $1,250,000 yacht of ailing Asbestos Tycoon Hiram Edward Manville; and for $140,000 the 206-ft Diesel yacht Lotosland, million-dollar pleasure craft of National City Banker Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds. Lotosland's seaplane hoist may prove useful, her pipe organ...