Word: patroller
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...before the ship had flown, however, the news of its spectacular 10,000-mile cruising range was out, and the Navy, one of Consolidated^ best customers, poked in its nose. At week's end it appeared likely that Model 31's first assignment will be as a patrol bomber for the fleet...
...Nova Scotia, excited fishermen and the captain of a pilot boat swore that they had seen an unidentified "submarine" cruise along the coast, enter Halifax Harbor. Canadian destroyers, minesweepers, and patrol planes searched fruitlessly. Nova Scotia is also a favorite resort of sea serpents...
...outfield misses the punch provided by ailing Captain Brud Harper, and at the present time the Tigers are getting along with Sparky Hill, Eddie Powers, Norm Cosby, and Ben Tate in the outfield patrol. Coach Clarke hasn't been satisfied too well with this arrangement, and he has been contemplating changes which would send Mark Robbins behind the bat as well as giving the out-field a good juggling...
Blunder or not, the noble friend's slip confirmed other developments. Although most of the fleet was anchored for the Easter holiday off British bases, other warships have already quietly taken up patrol duty in the North Sea. At military airports there was great activity. Sea approaches to Britain have again been mined, as they were last September...
...make these adolescents take it and like it. Six years ago, Philadelphia's platinum-blond Conductor Leopold Stokowski suggested a solution: make the parents stay away. Thereupon he started a series of "Concerts for Youth," sold tickets to youth only (between 13 and 25), got "bouncers" to patrol the aisles of the staid Academy of Music with orders to throw out anyone who looked overage...