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Awarded. To Flavel Manley Williams: a special gold medal of the American Museum of Safety; for his invention of the "fog camera" which, utilizing a special infra-red-sensitive film, can take photographs at great distances through fog (TIME, Jan. 15); in Manhattan...
...floor, but when one block was recently razed, the only sanitary facility discovered was a row of holes in a board in the backyard. Garbage is tossed out windows. In some, a match struck in the halls will illumine the foul air as if it were a fog. Death, pestilence, starvation and crime scurry unchecked through the dank rookeries of the Ghetto, Red Hook, Harlem and San Juan Hill. Slums have been a festering social problem for more than a century but Manhattan's death roster of the last few months has rubbed the public conscience raw. Pure economics...
...officers and men under Commander Harry D. McHenry, was cruising in as ugly a bit of water as lies off the coast of China. Bias Bay, 50 miles northeast of Hongkong, is notorious as a base of operations for Chinese pirates. A high sea and an incoming fog made it more unwholesome than usual. At 6:35 p. m. the officers were at mess when an exhaust gasket on one of the Fulton's Diesel engines blew out. In an instant spurting flames enveloped a tank containing oil for the engines. The tank exploded and fire filled the engine...
...Since that time ten Army flyers have lost their lives. ... I appreciate. . . that almost every part of the country has been visited during this period by snow, fog and storms, and that serious accidents, taking even more lives, have occurred at the same time in passenger and commercial aviation...
...Newark-Miami run, Lieut. Harold Dietz plowed into a night fog over Maryland. He circled Salisbury, where he knew there was a private landing field. There was a field but its beacon had not been in use for some time. Townsfolk heard the ship droning in circles overhead. Too late they rushed out to the landing field to turn on the lights. Lieut. Dietz pushed on to Crisfield, where his ship hit a tree and a telephone pole trying to land. The motor was thrown free and so was Lieut. Dietz. His skull was fractured, but he managed to shout...