Word: patroller
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...still stronger naval air force of the future Admiral Towers has at last been promised plenty of long-range, heavy-duty patrol bombers. The Navy plans to buy about 1,500 (cost per plane: $150,000 and up). Glenn Martin in Baltimore already had orders for 322 last February. Consolidated (maker of the famous PBYs) had at least as many more on order (including its giant four-engined flying boats...
...such power as this was really being assembled in Egypt, it would be inexcusable to let it complete preparations for attack and get rolling. The only answer could be an anticipatory attack-not just a patrol, not just a raid, but a real whang. If it failed, the German preparations for attack would at least have been hampered. If it succeeded, Winston Churchill and all his people would have much to be thankful...
...Secretary went further. Reporters also asked about the truth of a report by Columnists Alsop & Kintner that a U.S. destroyer on Atlantic patrol dropped depth bombs on a German submarine. The Secretary was really sore this time. Roared he: "I don't know where they got their information, but I know that it was a terrible thing to print it, right or wrong...
...Atlantic Patrol is beginning to help the British, though the rate of sinkings is still serious...
...provides "certain guaranties" regarding movements of French ships in U.S. waters; 2) commits France to notify the U.S. in advance concerning any shipment of the estimated $200,000,000 gold hoard from the Bank of France, now stored in the fortress at Martinique; 3) allows the U.S. to patrol the neighborhood of France's Caribbean islands by ship and plane...