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...Queen has learned through me that there was something foul about the official investigation of the fog deaths...
...newspapers see through the fog and glimpse the lighthouse beyond? This great country of ours has gone through dozens of depressions and emerged from every one of them richer and stronger than ever before. According to all reports, we are far richer today, even during this low-tide of business, than at any high-tide previous...
During the winters of 1897, 1902, 1911 and last week Belgians experienced the dread phenomenon of "poison fog." In their Royal Palace at Brussels last week King Albert and Queen Elisabeth received dreadful tidings that men, women, animals (no children), were gasping, choking, dying in a fog which filled the valley of the River Meuse from Liege down through Namur. On the fourth day the fog lifted, on the fifth Queen Elisabeth motored through the stricken valley, where 67 human lives had been lost, was rousingly cheered. The Belgian Government officially announced that the deaths were due "solely...
...thinking." Then he added : "The aviation industry might take that as its motto." His questions clearly indicated that Inventor Edison has remained aware of the fundamental problems of flight, has not filled his head with every detail of development. Most serious to him is the danger of landing in fog. Said he : "Radio, at the present time, is a bit too delicate for fog work. It is subject to fluctuations and it may go out of condition. ... I personally prefer to work up something much more simple." The "something simple," it transpired, might be a rocket on which Mr. Edison...
Caterpillar Jr. Within 100-mi, of Los Angeles, his goal for a "junior transcontinental speed record,"* Gerald Nettleton. 20, of Toledo, Ohio, was hopelessly in the "soup." Floundering at 10,000 ft. in rain, fog and snow he "couldn't see ten feet ahead"; but he knew he was near the Cuyamaca Mts. To try a blind landing would be insane. The instruments froze; the magneto began to misbehave. Pilot Nettleton made his decision. He leveled off, throttled down, cut his switch, rolled out the door, waited and pulled his ripcord. Pilot Nettleton landed near a ranch-house...