Word: patrolling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are 9,000 now unemployed inland and mountain laborers, who refuse to go home after a taste of higher wages on Jamaica's new U.S. naval base. The cruiser Ajax and troops from Bermuda quelled Kingston's strike riots in 1938. Now 1,300 white vigilantes patrol the streets at night with clubs and revolvers. Last week Canadian and U.S. troops were ordered out on parade one day before the annual celebration of Emancipation Day, commemorating the freeing of Jamaican slaves in 1838. The marching troops were a tacit warning that Jamaican police are backed by armed...
They met the Jap near Kokoda (where there is a usable airdrome) and stopped him. The enemy seemed confused at the kind of opposition he got. He came in force upon one small Allied patrol, saw it melt into the jungle before he could fire a shot. The little infantrymen fanned out and sprayed the underbrush with tommy-gun fire. They shouted: "You come, you come." But the patrol did not come. It pulled out without losing...
...Patrol. Amateurs make a small but worth-while contribution to the science of astronomy. The 400 professional stargazers in the U.S. have their eyes full; their research is mapped out for months ahead, with no time to watch the skies for unexpected phenomena. So many an amateur is organized for celestial sentry duty...
...conning tower decorated with a goat insignia, surfaced near two seamen swimming amid wreckage from their torpedoed cargo ship. Hauled aboard, Cornelius O'Connor, 19, and Raymond Smithson, 24, were given a tin cupful of rum by a fat officer in the conning tower. Suddenly a U.S. patrol plane appeared in the distance. O'Connor and Smithson were pushed down into the control room while the U-boat made a crash dive. Blindfolded, they were marched toward the torpedo room, where German seamen sponged off the oil coating the rescued men. They were given tea and black bread...
Biggest hitch is personnel-good pilots and mechanics are harder to find than smooth airfields in Africa. But airline operators expect to squeak through the pilot shortage by giving jobs to 1) independent air taxi operators; 2) airmen from the Civil Air Patrol; 3) newly trained men. For more mechanics the airlines have turned to a brand-new mass training technique. In Kansas City, T.W.A. is training repair crew specialists in 60 days v. two years for old-line, all-round aviation mechanics. Only drawback: the 1942 model mechanic knows, for example, only the radio, or the ignition system...