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...January 1934, Navy flyers made the longest non-stop formation flight in aviation history. Patrol Squadron VP-10, consisting of six big Wright Cyclone-powered Consolidated Navy patrol flying boats and 30 officers and men, flew 2,399 mi. over the Pacific Ocean from San Fran cisco to Honolulu's Pearl Harbor...
...from the point of view of sound business administration periodic changes--say once or twice a year--in the duties of those who patrol the college has everything in its favor. Unless all the night porters are familiar with every nook and cranny of the University, their usefulness in protecting the property and population is seriously impaired. With their simple routine functions to perform, the force's efficiency and morale is stiffened and braced by a change of outlook and terrain. Furthermore, the position of night patrolman at any one house should not become a vested interest, for watchmen...
...shyster lawyers send runners to the victim to tell him they saw the accident and recommend that their employers be retained for a damage suit. In New Orleans ambulance-chasers frequent police stations, are so friendly with policemen that they ride to accidents in patrol cars. In San Francisco in 1933, four doctors and five other employes of an emergency hospital were suspended for tipping off attorneys about accidents. In New York City, after insurance companies paid $9,449,916 in automobile injury claims in 1935, an Accident Fraud Bureau was set up under Assistant District Attorney Bernard Botein...
...like his father owned by the President and Fellows, is the only dog in the world owned by a corporation. He is well bred as well as aristocratic, having been trained to refrain from biting any intruders found in his nightly patrol...
...layman browsing about the Truck Show: a huge, streamlined, refrigerated milk truck with a little propeller inside the tank to keep the milk slowly circulating so it will not be churned into butter; the Diesel engines newly introduced in U. S. trucks; a semi-streamlined, green police patrol wagon for $2,000. To the truckman, more exciting was the talk on all sides of the current truck boom. In 1935, 3,655,705 trucks ran over U. S. highways - slightly more than in 1930. Last year total sales in the U. S. and Canada were 732,005 trucks. Said Truckman...