Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dark, and fog hanging over the flat Indiana countryside rushed steadily back into the glare of the headlight of the Dixie Flyer, pounding south from Chicago. Locomotive Engineer Frank Blair stared hard ahead, to catch the dim gleam of the rails. Suddenly, about five miles from Terre Haute, he saw something which few railroad engineers have seen, under the modern railroad signal systems.* Into the headlight sprang the headlight of another locomotive, on the single track ahead. Frank Blair's palm hit the throttle; he jerked at the air brakes. The huge drivers screeched and slid, and Engineer Blair...
...trains, operated by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, collided at 2:20 a.m. The crash woke Albert Kellett and his wife Ruth. Kellett threw back the covers sleepily and looked out the window. Lights were glowing strangely in the fog over the railroad right of way; soon he began to hear men screaming in the dark fields. Then the boiler of one of the locomotives blew up. Kellett telephoned for help and ran out into the night. Some of the airmen were crying for morphine; others stumbled aimlessly through the blood-spattered wreckage...
...trip across the floor we ran into--John White, over from the Statler, dancing in quite a romantic mood; Max Kirschbaum, who in one of his more violent jitterbug frenzies almost floored us and his date for keeps; Tommy Smith in an angle in the wall deep in intellectual fog with someone very charming to be that way with; Dan Brestel, also fighting toward the bar with little success; and Jason Widmer, who had his buffet supper with his date at Revere Beach...
...since the blitz had London taken so savage a beating. At dawn, at dusk, in fog, sunlight and darkness the robombs roared across the Channel, streaked through ack-ack and balloon cable defenses, pounded more of the city into debris...
Next day Franklin Roosevelt weighed anchor. As his ship headed north and west into the North Pacific fogs, the President cast a line overboard. His catch: one halibut, one flounder. At Adak, an as-yet-uncompleted base in the Andreanof Islands, Franklin Roosevelt went ashore, amid fog and mud, for a six-hour stay...