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...earlier meetings between Roosevelt and Churchill-on the fogbound North Atlantic in 1941, at the White House after Pearl Harbor and again last June-now seemed like pallid curtain raisers to the drama of this fourth meeting, beneath the tropical palms of North Africa, 4,000 miles from Washington. And probably the decisions reached last week, between the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain, overshadowed anything they had ever discussed before...
...Patronized by Pan American Airways passengers fogbound at Foynes, 15 miles away...
...foggy and icy in St. Louis, Mo., one morning a month ago. Even crows were walking. Fogbound at St. Louis Airport was small, pert, impish Leo Herbert Rich, industrial consultant. With a pocketful of proxies he had flown from New York City to make a fight at a stockholders' meeting of Barnsdall Refining Corp. The meeting was in Tulsa that afternoon, and unless he got there in time, a deal was going through whereby the individual stockholders were going to be reduced to a mere 13% minority and control of the company was going to return to Barnsdall Refining...
Alongside a dock hard by Britain's Royal Naval College in fogbound Dartmouth, the strangest ship in the world is being fitted out this week for a series of voyages that are to take her, within the next few years, to many an out-of-the-way corner of the seas. She is the Royal Research Ship Research, a trim 770-ton brigantine. Chief job of naval and civilian scientists, to be quartered in her midships, will be to chart magnetic variations, compare their readings with those taken by the Carnegie Institution's Carnegie before she blew...
Early one morning a guard came upon five empty cells, their bars sawed clean. He sounded an alarm. Suddenly searchlights flooded the twelve-acre island. It shone in the darkness of the fogbound bay like an electric bulb wrapped in a mass of wool. This time there was no mystery about the fate of the escapers. Searchlights and guards spotted them at the water's edge, one picking up driftwood...