Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instead of welcoming the incoming plane, Prince Ludwig was informed by airway officials that the Belgian Sabena airliner carrying his family had crashed while attempting an emergency landing at fog-covered Ostend airport, killing all. Prostrate, young Prince Ludwig was rushed to the home of friends, Lord & Lady Louis Mountbatten, relatives of King George VI. Additional news from Ostend added the most horrifying note to the tragedy. Searchers poking in the charred wreck of the plane stumbled on the remains of an infant, prematurely delivered when the plane crashed, lying beside the crumpled body of Grand Duchess Cecile...
...Charles Michelson in his regular Democratic National Committee publicity hand-out to the press, "Dispelling the Fog," added some to a moot question: "When they are not talking about the hopeless viciousness of the New Deal principles nowadays, they are invoking the old favorite fable of Roosevelt seeking a dictatorship. And then they trot out the old bogey of a third term. . . . Obviously, the President cannot in advance decline a renomination that may never be offered him. Just as obviously, with the world in such a turmoil as it is today outside of this continent, it cannot be forecast whether...
Japanese brought a new army to the Shanghai sector of the war last week. Hitherto they have bitten at the Shanghai peninsula exclusively along the northern edge of its tip. Last week they landed forces along the southern edge under cover of thick fog. Surprised Chinese battled the Japanese landing parties hand-to-hand, but the Son of Heaven's troops gained a solid footing, preparatory to Japanese efforts to nip off Shanghai from the rest of China by closing pincers from the North and South, now that Japan's frontal attack has failed to take Shanghai...
Just what the new permanent farm program was to be was not known even in Henry Wallace's big, liberal heart. But through the fog of conflicting plans loomed the probability that the New Deal would ask Congress for the return of the substance of AAA, modified to include 1) Mr. Wallace's "ever normal granary" scheme of storing surpluses for lean years, 2) the better features of the soil conservation program, 3) some form of AAA's prime prop-crop control. However, supporting processing taxes would be enacted as a general tax measure, not incorporated...
...whipping wind, undefeated Dartmouth's Bill Hutchinson scored against undefeated Harvard in the first quarter. Just after it began to rain in the third quarter he ran 55 yards for another touchdown. Before the game ended Dartmouth's Hutchinson had scored again, this time in a heavy fog and ankle-deep mud. Score...