Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind them, the "stage electrician" manipulated his switchboard. He could simulate every effect they might see on a war patrol: dawn, eastern horizon (the thin line of light which justifies the phrase "crack of dawn"); dawn, western horizon (an upper glow, quite different); fire at sea (a glow unmistakable once seen); thunder showers far off; gunfire ("Here's a cruiser coming at you," explained the CPO instructor, and the class watched the tiny, stabbing flashes grow brighter...
...London's sprawling Submarine Base the most searching tests in the Navy go on. In submarines, every man is his brother's keeper. Submariners must be healthy and intelligent, but, more important than everything else, they must be emotionally well-balanced. The strain of a war patrol is too great for the man with quirks, for sourpusses or incurable practical jokers. Thus sub men have an air of pipe-smoking imperturbability and quiet good humor that no other group of fighting men can match...
...Moves In. That night all Los Angeles stayed downtown to see the fun. When darkness came to the fog-chilled streets, the sidewalks and streets were jammed with expectant servicemen and civilians. Shore Patrol cars, Military Police and police and sheriffs' cars patrolled in force...
...Tower, Loew's. Others stopped streetcars, pulled off zooters, Mexicans or just dark-complexioned males. On went the mob, ripping pants, beating the young civilians, into the Arcade, the Roxy, the Cameo, the Broadway, the Central and the New Million Dollar theaters. The mood of officialdom (the Shore Patrol, the Military Police, the city police, the sheriff's office) seemed complaisant...
...Russia and Great Britain. Proud of that position and its record of 70% of its production shipped to allies, Munitions Minister C. D. Howe reported last week that Canada now has a weekly production of: 80 airplanes, 4,000 motor vehicles, 450 fighting vehicles, six escort, cargo or patrol vessels, 940 heavy guns, 13,000 small weapons, 525,000 rounds of heavy ammunition, 25,000,000 rounds of small-arms ammunition, 10,000 tons of chemicals and explosives, $4,000,000 worth of instrument and communications equipment...