Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marine Captain George Roy Hill, on a routine training flight, was flying through a pea-soup fog toward Atlanta's Candler Airport. With the field socked in and his instruments out of order, he had to make his landing with the help of GCA (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar landing system. By voice radio, the operator on the field furnished Pilot Hill with simple verbal instructions, and Hill brought his plane in for a perfect landing-even though the field was so fogbound that a jeep sent out to lead him to a hangar was unable to find...
Fishmongers Cleve and Moore both announced themselves astounded, and then set desperately to work to get the fish to the Queen before it spoiled. Moore waited in agony while an overdue train from Grimsby crept toward him through the fog. A crew of cold-storage experts stood by to repack the sturgeon in a new load of ice on Moore's truck. When all was set, Moore's general manager nipped off through the fog with the precious burden to London, 125 miles away. Meanwhile, in Grimsby, Fishmonger Cleve fretted for fear Moore was stealing the show...
...Monte Carlo Rally (TIME, Feb. 11), the race is not to the swiftest but to the surest and luckiest. The 404 entries from 20 nations took off from such widely scattered points as Stockholm, Lisbon, Glasgow and Palermo. The drivers ran into all sorts of hazards: rain, snow, sleet, fog, mechanical breakdowns, head-on crashes. In addition, eagle-eyed dockers at various points ticked off the cars as they passed, making sure that none exceeded the 65-kilometer-per-hour (40 m.p.h.) speed limit. A minute's delay here, too much speed there, and a car could be penalized...
...never troubled Bucky. No matter what happens on earthly levels, his mind goes its own soaring way. Currently it is full of another concept of shelter for the human family in the form of'a great whirling blade overhead, which swishes into outer space all cold and fog and wind and rain, together with the moth and rust that corrupt, leaving the shipping clerk and his riveter wife snug and secure with their three children inside the wall-less vacuum of his dreams. If any fool objects that the neighbors can see in, there are always curtains, or something...
...were excellently designed, but demanded a great deal of their occupants. "Damn it," said an eminent architectural friend of Bucky's, "Bucky thinks people ought to get weighed while sitting on the toilet seat, brushing their teeth with a cake of soap and taking a shower from a fog-gun." An evil light came into the eminent architectural eye. "But I ainta gonta," he said. "I just ainta gonta...