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Citizens of Santos went to their work and back to their homes last week in a thick and pungent fog. Economists did not mind the smell. In an effort to reduce Brazil's enormous stocks of coffee, a mountain of 530,000 bags of low grade coffee was piled up, soaked with oil and set alight. All day long the coffee volcano roared into the sky, darkened the heavens with the smell of a billion spoiled breakfasts...
...face the wind, realized that whichever way they turned they had better have turned some other way. Nor did the ruffian Skiron spare the skirts of sisters and sweethearts. Graceful draperies sprang into life as parachutes, revealing much not usually disclosed to the eye of man. But the fog was conquered...
Wind and sun are the only efficacious dispellers of fog. But to dissipate thin shallow fogs such as rise over a harbor the warm morning after a still, clear night, Professor McAdie suggests that fireboats squirt their streams at the mist. "Electrified spray from these mighty nozzles would not only wash a channel through the fog, but cause the fog droplets to coalesce and agglomerate and drop as a drizzling rain. The squirting would not be very expensive...
...mean flying across Poland and into Russia, 1,000 mi. of "hedgehopping" under a creeping low ceiling of fog and rain. But Post & Gatty appeared fresh and vigorous to the Ossoviakhim (Soviet Society for Aviation and Chemical Defense) who greeted them late that after- noon. Someone in the crowd offered Gatty a Russian cigaret, but he was still smoking from a pack bought in New York, "day before yesterday." There was a nine-course dinner at the Grand Hotel, champagne spurned again by the flyers. Two hours rest, then out to the airport soon after midnight. Here the take...
...keep up with Cornell. The Navy stroke, Ray Hunter, could see both boats laboring along behind him. When Cornell began to gain he sent the Navy stroke up to 40 and kept it smooth across the finish, which he crossed to the absurdly disconsolate hooting of a destroyer's fog horn. Cornell was only a length behind, Washington third, the rest of the shells strung out up the river?California, Syracuse, Penn. Columbia, inexplicably ragged and ineffectual, finished seventh, just ahead of Wisconsin. M. I. T. was last...