Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fog comes down. . . . Airmen crash into mountains when fog comes down. Or they stray many counties off their course. The air mail may be hours late if fog comes down...
Inventor Raymond Machlett of Long Island City, N. Y., lately developed a light of such special incandescence that its long wave light rays can be seen through 20 miles of fog (TIME, July...
...lighthouses such as those now winking over the Alleghenies with automatic radio transmitters, each unit costing only $250 and manageable by the present lighthouse attendants. Each station would broadcast on a short wavelength measured to light up a wireless light bulb in the cockpit of a passing plane. Darkness, fog, rain, sleet or snow have virtually no effect on radio waves. But distance lessens their strength. If a pilot started straying off his course, the bulb on his dashboard, a "pilot light" indeed, would grow dim. As he steered back to his proper course, the bulb would brighten cheerfully...
...would not warm to such easy, hospitable words?although indeed Premier Baldwin's political friends in England must have shuddered to read his unconsidered and spontaneous indiscretion: "Sometimes I feel that we can never get out of the fog...
...particular, Colonel Green wants to perfect radio devices for combatting fog. Said he: "We can give the government more fog here to work with than any other place in the country...