Word: patroller
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...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...
...Communist Party is a "border patrol" of Russia, led, financed, dominated and directed by Russia for the benefit of Russia. U. S. workmen "have borne the brunt of the Communist efforts" and suffer most from them, but have resisted so successfully that only ten or twelve of some 48 C. I. O. unions are "more than tinged" with Communism...
...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...