Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower half of the Champs Elysees, preceded by groups representing former prisoners of war and deportees, Communist youth organizations and the Franc-tireurs et Partisans (Communist-controlled guerrillas who had fought the Nazis), Boisvin could only just see the nose and steel helmet of Georges Clemenceau, peeping through the fog. Crowds lined the street...
...been prepared and will be mailed to you within a week, embodied in Kiplinger Magazine" This was followed by a full-page ad in TIME, after the election: "What will DEWEY do? Find out in the November issue of Kiplinger Magazine ... It will help you dispel the campaign fog...
...Choking Sensation. The first to discover that the smog had assumed peculiar qualities was a man walking home late at night. He was seized with a paroxysm of choking. But he had little time to reflect on the fact that the fog had assumed an odd, penetrating odor. He sat down on the curb, toppled over and died...
Others awakened to experience the same awful choking sensation. By morning, as the fourth day of fog began, more were dead and scores of people were complaining of difficulty in breathing. Doctors, hurrying to answer calls, quickly concluded that the fog was lethal mainly to elderly people suffering from asthma or heart trouble. But they were puzzled about its effects. Victims seemed to suffer partial paralysis of the diaphragm. Nothing but oxygen seemed to bring relief...
...Plain Murder." What had caused their deaths? Medical authorities remembered that over 60 people and hundreds of horses and cattle had perished during a heavy fog in Belgium's Meuse Valley in 1930; industrial gases had mingled in the fog, had gone through a series of chemical reactions and resolved into droplets of sulphuric acid. Dr. William Rongaus of the Donora Board of Health was certain that his town's tragedy was also the result of industrial fumes collecting in the motionless, humid air. Said he, bitterly: "It's plain murder." The zinc smeltery shut down...