Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practically the only people awake in suburban Millburn, N. J. one night last week were policemen cruising around to keep the nocturnal peace and two bored men on desk duty at headquarters, who sat with drooping ears to hear occasional reports from the patrol cars. It was the small hour...
...agencies allege that Finnish troops cut communications along the Murmansk railway and that this line is now 'completely paralyzed.'... In reality, the Murmansk railway has not suspended work for a single minute." (Possibly true. The Finns have blocked a branch line leading toward Finland, and isolated Finnish patrols have been trying to cut the main railroad, but only one is known to have reported reaching it. That patrol consisted of only a few men, who could not carry much dynamite...
...French patrol ship followed a Spanish steamer carrying German goods but did not seize her. Reason: the cargo included an automobile sent by Adolf Hitler as a present to France's neighbor, Francisco Franco...
Questioned about the 300-mile "safety zone" in American waters Wild said, "We do not need it. If we had one we could not patrol...
...Across Lake Laatokka the world's champion speed skater, 28-year-old Birger Vasenius, led a skating patrol to relieve Finnish troops on an island, was killed by a Russian sharpshooter...