Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight fog, at 6:20 on the morning of Nov. 20, 1917, the tank entered modern warfare. At that moment 378 steel monsters rolled toward the German lines on the Cambrai front. The armored vehicles, traveling at three miles an hour and closely followed by British infantry, ripped through the Germans' intricate barbed-wire defenses, slithered across their wide trenches. The surprised Germans bolted before the tanks' machine-gun fire. In ten hours 10,000 German soldiers surrendered. The Allied command lacked the wit or experience to make Cambrai a decisive victory, but the tank had made...
...with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina patrol boat one day when it was feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into the fog...
...dirt. Easing through a rift in the overcast he popped out over a Jap task force, two carriers, cruisers, a screen of destroyers. Ducking in & out of the overcast, he radioed for help. Another PBY led Army Flying Fortresses and Marauders to the spot. They blasted through the fog, got a probable hit on one of the carriers...
...while his Washington life is perhaps comfortable enough to Elmer Davis, the U.S. has had the bad end of the bargain. In place of a voice that nightly made things sound clear, plain, sensible and always reassuring for five warming minutes, they got an Administrator, lost in the fog of Washington...
...year's taxes every year the Treasury cannot lose a year's revenue even if the taxes are collected against this year's instead of last year's income. Meantime the danger is growing that if taxation experts do not soon snap out of their fog several million new taxpayers may reach March 15 under the impression that the lose-a-year's-taxes talk means that they need not pay anything at all this year...