Word: patroller
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...newshawks gulped. George Earle put down his paper and began to patrol the carpet while questions were fired at him. Might he be a candidate for President in 1944? Would he be a candidate for Senator next year against Republican James J. Davis? He had only one answer for all queries: "I'm not running for anything...
...over six hollow copper cables 11 in. in diameter. In an engineering enterprise of this magnitude unique solutions of special problems are likely to occur. One such solution publicized in Los Angeles last week was the way in which radio communication is maintained with the 14 repair crews which patrol the transmission line in automobiles...
...Angeles engineers installed, at each end of the line, low-power transmitters using about 80,000 kilocycles, and these high frequency signals are impressed on the electric power cables. Through this broad channel they ride easily so that messages are clearly heard by any patrol car, provided it is within a half mile of the line. The great power flow of 275,000 volts so smooth that the radio signals riding piggyback are not distorted...
...declared himself in the market for a speedy boat. After buying The Wanderer he was no longer seen around the club. Refitted and renamed, the tall bark, unmistakable for her clipper bow and sleek racing lines, was recognized by British and U. S. naval officers of the International Slave Patrol, insouciantly ferrying from the west coast of Africa to lonely U. S. inlets...
Paralleling The Lost Patrol (1934), the simple narrative of The Thirteen supplies its own suspense. Director Mikhail Romm keeps the dialog terse and direct, lets a rifle crack, a sand track, a warwhoop augment the action. Superb photographic sequences: the parleys with the bandit chief, one parched private running amok, the shots of shifting, sliding sand...