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...throats would have frayed thousands of tempers, but Londoners had long since come to regard a Big Fog as a kind of picnic. Under the cloak of pea-soup anonymity, whistling as they felt their way, strangers walked and talked with strangers in a manner unthinkable in bright daylight...
Tuba was not much help to U.S. day bombers, whose tight formations, necessary for protection against day fighters, made them extremely vulnerable to radar-pointed ground guns deep in Germany. So U.S. bombers carried "Carpet"-small transmitters sending out continuous waves to confuse the Wurzburgs. Carpet cut U.S. daylight bomber losses in half...
...thing has been as clear as daylight to me ever since I became convinced of the reality of the atomic bomb: namely, that a secret armament race in respect to this weapon must at all costs be avoided," Conant continued. "I am an enthusiastic supporter of the policy laid down in the first statement from the White House, and I hope the whole country will rally behind the administration in this matter...
...Cadet does, and do it just as right and just as quick. They have to take the standard three hours a week of physical training, in addition to their hour and a half of daily football practice. Says Cadet Glenn Davis: "I never used to think about taking a daylight nap. Now I get sleepy every time I see a sofa." The two breaks that the 38-man football squad gets over the other 2,500 Cadets are: 1) a seat at the training table, where steaks and ice cream are more fre quent; 2) an occasional chance to leave...
...circles of spurious light in the last four pictures are not ghosts from the nonreflecting coated lenses, but light leaks through a hole designed for a clock or other auxiliary apparatus to be photographed through the side of the camera. The hole had a cover proof against ordinary daylight but not against the super daylight with which the bomb engulfed the camera...