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...passengers aboard a plane at London Airport last week, "is what you call a real pea-souper." One of the thickest particulars in London's fogbound history was blanketing the field. It had caught the airliner just after she landed on Runway 280. Before the French pilot could brake to a stop, his aircraft was blanketed. "Stay where you are " ordered the control tower in answer to his plea. "We'll tow you in." Pilot Legillou ordered champagne and brandy passed out to the passengers. "We must be happy while we wait," he said. An airline...
...weeks ago, Premier René Pleven proclaimed austerity for France, and a Slash in imports of U.S. coal, ore and raw materials, in an effort to brake the run. But devaluation rumors had French capital badly scared...
...stretch his legs on the platform. At the same time Engineer Konvalinka got down from his cab and slipped between the tender and the baggage car, shutting off the airbrake line (this meant that no one would be able to stop the train by pulling the emergency brake). As Konvalinka got back into his cab and started the train, Truksa followed him into the cab. He whipped out his pistol and trained it on the fireman, a Communist, and ordered him to lie face down on the floor...
...train lurched through the Asch station and raced on through the crowded freight yards. Comrade Conductor Beb rushed for the emergency brake and pulled it. Nothing happened: Engineer Konvalinka had done his job well. Beb ran to one of the hand brakes, but the tight-lipped men who had been watching the brakes elbowed him away...
...world wars, British science and British industry grew closer together again under the impetus of military necessity. But even now, "the rate at which scientific knowledge is being applied in many industries is too small and too slow . . . The natural conservatism of laymen has acted as a powerful brake to the adoption of new ideas . . . [There is] lack of a coordinated system of scientific and technological education in this country . . . The buying up and suppression of patents and discoveries to protect equipment from becoming obsolete has also been known to happen . . . It is a sad reflection that the urgent demands...