Word: patroller
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This underlay the sensational proposal, quickly adopted, that the navies of the Americas patrol their seas in a defined "security belt" around all of the Hemisphere but Canada. With the aid of air fleets the ships would police the territorial waters to a distance averaging 300 miles offshore, would bar all European submarines, allow belligerents' surface warships only the legal 24 hours' entry...
First thought went to the practical obstacles : sum total of all South American navies comes to about 70 warcraft, excluding gunboats, and South America has 8,500 Atlantic seacoastmiles, 5,300 Pacific. Must the U. S., with an adequate one-ocean Navy, build one big enough to patrol four seas...
...false burglar alarm was accidentally kept in by the Cambridge Trust Company at 2:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Almost immediately one patrol and one prowl car in addition to a motorcycle policeman were on the scene with guns drawn...
...Roosevelt in the White House had tocsined the U. S. public to a feverish pitch. Then he permitted a week of domestic calm. Last week, before Congress met, he got on the bell-rope again. He upped the Coast Guard's personnel by 2,000, for coastal peace patrol. Undenied was a story that his State, War & Navy Departments had whacked up a precautionary war budget of $20,000,000,000 for a single year, $2,000,000,000 of it for further increases in the military forces, when & if necessary. The Gallup index to his personal popularity leaped...
This first solid German blow to the Royal Navy came on the heels of a communique issued last week to assure the British public that something was being done, some progress made, against the U-boats. "His Majesty's destroyers, patrol vessels and aircraft have been carrying out constant patrols over wide areas in search of enemy U-boats. Many attacks have been made and a number of U-boats have been destroyed. Survivors have been rescued and captured when possible...