Word: fogged
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...brush. Somewhere behind a barn a horn honked steadily. Out of rank weeds edging a ditch two men rose, splattered machine gun and pistol bullets around the wounded guards as five prisoners scrambled toward the honking horn. Fugitives and deliverers then roared out of sight in the fog...
...Francisco, the squadron roared over Diamond Head and Waikiki to a pretty landing on Pearl Harbor and a thunderous welcome from the proud folk of happy Honolulu. There was little for the officers to report. All had gone well. Plane No. 5 had been separated from the squadron by fog a couple of times, but had resumed her place without difficulty. The squadron's fuel tanks still contained enough fuel to carry it on to Midway Island, some 1,200 miles westward...
Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams last week loped happily down the gangplank of the United States liner Manhattan, back from Bermuda. His "fog camera," tested during the cruise under his supervision, was to remain on the Manhattan's upper bridge as regular equipment, was slated for installation on the Manhattan's sister ship Washington...
Infra-red rays, invisible and insensible, pierce much farther through fog than visible light. With cameras using infra-red-sensitive film, special lenses and filters, mountains lost in haze have been photographed from hundreds of miles away, group pictures of people have been taken in pitch-black rooms...
...contains its own "dark room." As soon as a portion of film is exposed it is fed swiftly into a developing bath, then into a fixing bath after which it is illuminated for examination. Elapsed time: 30 seconds. Thus a skipper can safely photograph his way through otherwise unnavigable fog provided nothing crosses his path at a distance less than his ship travels in half a minute...