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Some of the gaiety was taken out of the French Capital by a sudden and unprecedented fall from the sky of what was graphically described as a "pea-soup fog...
...nabob of the sergents de ville, or policemen, ordered his force of men to guard the street corners in the busiest sections of the city. Automobile drivers were told to honk frequently, to use the full power of their headlights. The only effect was to light up the fog without penetrating it and to cause such a din by the honking as to force the usually voluble French into an exhausted silence. None the less, only a few minor accidents from collision were reported...
Over London dropped with the suddenness of a theatre curtain a dense, dirty, yellow, cold, clammy, blanket of fog. For 24 hours the street lamps shed their ineffectual light, people walked cautiously, busses crashed into one another, policemen controlled traffic with rockets...
Flying in the densest fog will soon have no terrors for the aviator. On the airway between Dayton, Ohio, and Moundsville, W. Va., the Army Air Service has installed a "radio compass," with electric oscillations flashing between the towers at either end of the airway. An aviator flying exactly on the course hears only dashes; if his plane turns to left or right of the course and a coil in his receiving equipment is at an angle to the course, he hears a warning signal, dash and dot, or dot and dash, as the case...
...Professor E. L. Chaffee G. '11, Associate Professor of Physics at the University, made to a CRIMSON reporter last night, when interviewed concerning the work which is being carried on by the United States Government to determine whether or not electrified sand scattered by airplanes will cause clouds and fog banks to disappear...