Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three Conferees dispersed under cover of an all but newsless fog of military security. But here & there was vouchsafed a glimpse-such as Franklin Roosevelt's afterdeck chats with Near Eastern potentates; here & there a sound, like the short snort from Socialism's old warhorse, George Bernard Shaw. Snorted Shaw: "[The Yalta Conference is] an impudently incredible fairy tale. . . . Will Stalin declare war on Japan as the price of surrender of the other two over Lublin? Not a word about it. Fairy tales, fairy tales, fairy tales. I for one should like to know what really passed...
About an hour after the takeoff, Master Sergeant Sutre Paijkull, in a rear seat, idly watched one of the Bristol's two propellers bite into a milky fog. Through a sudden rift he saw a mountain ahead, heard Chief Pilot Nils Werner scream: "Oh, my God." The next sounds he remembered were the soft voices of Italian peasants poking about the wreckage which pinioned him in pain...
Near Mt. Palomar's forested upper slopes thick fog drifted over the road and hail hissed out of the clouds. The three trucks groped through it fearfully, for a skid might have rolled both trucks and mirror down the steep mountainside. Then, as the mirror neared the observatory dome-shining like frosted silver and big as a railroad roundhouse-a shaft of brilliant sunlight broke through the clouds. The nearest star, the sun, was friendly...
Magic-eyed radar, which guides the Queen Elizabeth through North Atlantic fogs, can guide a tugboat, too. Last week the New Haven and the Pennsylvania Railroads demonstrated how tugboat radar might eliminate fog delays in New York's crowded harbor...
Sandwiched between two barges carrying 40 loaded freight cars, the New Haven's tug Transfer 21 set out from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for Greenville on the Jersey shore. Her pilothouse windows were hung with heavy grey curtains, more opaque than any fog. This low visibility did not bother the captain. By glancing at the radar's 12-in. "scope," he could follow all harbor doings for a mile around. A squarish blob meant a ferryboat; a small oval, a tug. Moored ships showed their anchor chains. Snaking her heavy barges through all these obstacles, the Transfer 21 made...