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...orchestra arrived at the Channel to find a hurricane raging. They set out just the same. Fogbound in mid-channel, they missed their first Brussels date, spent the night giving an improvised shipboard concert for an audience of Tommies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The British Carry On | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...London" to establish a "friendly working agreement" between the Russians and the Poles. It had been labor lost. Winston Churchill made his Government's position plain: in the harsh world of power politics, Britain would cross Russia no further (see above). The position of the U.S. was completely fogbound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Facts of Life | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

Near Barnegat Inlet on the New Jersey coast, duck hunters lay in fogbound blinds and listened to the stodgy thrum of two blimps plowing through the overcast. Then they heard a ripping crash. Through the fog, wreckage dripped down into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: In the Fog | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

These reports told of the Japs successfully digging in on fogbound, rocky Kiska and Attu islands, withstanding 31 U.S. bombings in three days, and even using rock crumbled by the bombs to forward the construction of bomber and fighter runways on Kiska...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Jap Claptrap | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Complication. From the fogbound Ways & Means Committee was coming a taxpayers' nightmare-a nightmare not because the taxes were steep, for the U.S., by & large, is prepared to pay high taxes, but because the plan is so complicated that not even experts are sure it would work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Tax Soliloquy | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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