Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every 48 Seconds. The lift began in fog and high winds. For 18 of the 24 hours the big C-47 and bigger C-54 cargo planes had to be flown on instruments through the narrow 20-mile Soviet air corridors. But the operation went off like clockwork. Every 48 seconds, on the average, a plane was landing or taking off at one of Western Berlin's two airfields (Tempelhof and Gatow). On Air Force Day thousands of Germans gathered at the Berlin fields and at the loading bases at Frankfurt and Wiesbaden. Many kept tallies of the number...
...Hundreds of migrating thrushes, oven-birds, warblers, redstarts, and red-eyed vireos got lost in the fog and crashed into the Empire State Building, littering the street below with dead and injured birds. Others thumped into tall structures in Baltimore and Philadelphia...
...Fog had closed in Frankfurt's Rhine-Main Airport one night last week; the administration building's lights could not be seen across the field. Near the runway, in a red and white checkered trailer, three G.I. technicians bent over their separate receivers-Search Scope, Middle Scope, Final Scope...
...impressive records. Between June 26 and Aug. 26 it had made 15,853 flights, hauled 100,398 tons of food and other vital supplies to blockaded Berlin. Even more impressive, the planes had shuttled back & forth during the worst summer Germany had seen in years. Despite all the rain, fog and even sleet, GCA had brought the planes in for 850 blind landings without an accident...
...towboats and 400 barges, but they serve only that company.) Next come St. Louis' Mississippi Valley Barge Lines, Pittsburgh's Union Barge Line and the American Barge Line Co. of Jeffersonville, Ind. On their newest craft, the skippers don't have to smell their way through fog, as Sam Clemens and Steamboat Bill used to. Radar does the trick nowadays...