Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many for round-the-clock operations on CAA's tight budget. Many pilots disliked the idea of putting themselves in the hands of an unknown operator on the ground. Furthermore, G.C.A. was not foolproof-a fact emphasized this week when a Navy four-engined transport, landing through the fog at the Oakland airport under G.C.A. control, crashed and burned...
Over Shanghai's airfields on Christmas night the fog rolled, and China's budding air transport system had a situation it was not qualified to meet. One incoming airline pilot had no experience with G.C.A. (ground-controlled approach, the modern homing system which U.S. airlines still hope to get). Two others tried to work out their approach problems on ill-maintained radio sets, which failed them. Result: all three crashed, in the worst disaster in the history of commercial aviation. Injured, 18; dead...
...General Electric, the only men who have done anything about the weather. On Nov. 13, they proved that they could turn a cold cloud into snow by sprinkling it with dry ice (TIME, Nov. 25). Last week, Schaefer told of a further triumph. He walked into a cold ground fog swinging a wire basket of dry ice round his head. The fog parted, leaving a lane, as the Red Sea water parted for the Children of Israel...
...steamship Rossia wallowed in the fog at Marseilles' rickety pier G. At her stern, a red flag hung limply in the November drizzle; on her funnel was the hammer and sickle.* Above the monotonous slap of the waves came occasional harsh orders, the melancholy strains of a Russian song...
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark wore a court plaster on his forehead. Returning from a fox hunt, he had driven his car into a truck in the fog...