Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wait & Speculate. While the U.S. public waited for the final truth about the Yalta conference, it could speculate on the import of the Kurils deal. In the Kurils are 6,140 square miles of islands shrouded by fog and volcanic smoke, bleak and thinly populated, without important natural resources. But the islands have great strategic importance. By their acquisition, Russia had pushed farther east into the North Pacific, was now smack astride the short Alaskan air route from the U.S. to the Far East. Paramu-shiro, a Japanese air and naval outpost in the northern Kurils, was frequently bombed...
Four nights later an eastbound Denver & Salt Lake freight crawled through a heavy fog in deep Gore Canyon 90 miles west of Denver. It missed a signal, collided head on with a westbound Rio Grande passenger train, killed the fireman. Sadly, railroad officials amended their boast: "Our new system does not penetrate fog...
...Days. Like most of London's weather, last week's fog was not as bad as fogs "used to be." Cabbies remembered when "yer couldn't see yer blinkin' 'and in front of yer fice...
...That fogs have eased in the last 40 years is borne out by fact as well as old fogies. The London Fog Inquiry Board in 1903 reported that visibility from atop St. Paul's dome averaged only a half-mile daily between 2 and 3 p.m. from Dec. 20, 1902 to March 17, 1903. The Air Ministry found that during the winter of 1943-44 average visibility had risen to one and one-quarter miles...
...difference lies in the fact that London nowadays burns far less fog-making soft coal. Although the yearly discharge of soot and ashes is down to 300 tons per sq. mi., London's diligent Smoke Abatement Society is by no means satisfied. For one thing, deaths from respiratory diseases increase during foggy weather. But, as a Smoke Abatement spokesman unequivocally stated: "The most injurious effect of fog is more subtle-in obstructing sunlight and daylight...