Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes on the ground stretched into hours, for LaGuardia was hemmed in by fog and snow to within three-quarters of a mile's visibility, and the unrelenting snow had piled up on the big wings of Northeast's DC-6A. Flight 823's Captain Alva Marsh, 48, a 19-year transport veteran, stood by waiting for clearance. Finally Pilot Marsh checked the weather again, decided to go. It was 6:01 p.m. when the plane lumbered down the runway into the darkness, lifted heavily off the ground and, slowly gaining altitude, went into an inexplicable left...
Mass production was also boosting safety devices, driving down prices on expensive navigational equipment. Raytheon produced a simple kitelike screen ($14.95) to hang on a mast in a fog so that small craft will shine extra bright on big ships' radar. And depth indicators that sold two years ago for $500 were down...
...joined the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California. In 1940 he migrated to Cambridge, where Massachusetts Institute of Technology was setting up its great Government radar laboratory. There he invented and developed G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar blind-landing system which "talks" airplanes safely down to a fog-covered runway. This enormously valuable job accomplished, Alvarez, still only 32, moved on to the wartime atom-bomb project. In 1945 he measured from an airplane the dangerous shock wave of the first atomic test explosion at Alamogordo, N. Mex. Later that year he did the same for the bomb...
Hopper claims that he does most of the cooking himself. "I'm the typical American husband," he adds, and the rare pronouncement, intended to amuse, echoes like a thunderbolt from the enveloping fog bank of his silence. Actually, Hopper fires off a fair share of personal observations, only he spaces them days and weeks apart. Examples: "American women are pretty flat-chested, on the whole.'' "The Pacific Ocean is sort of misty, greyish." "Armenians have no backs to their heads." "I don't see why people are crazy to import French paintings when there...
...bobble anywhere could jam the whole program, it was that tight. Traffic men in Chicago, where more than half the issue was printed, sweated out a week of fog, but the weather cleared in time for the airlift. Deliveries went off on stepped-up schedule in all states except North and South Carolina. Copies destined for those states were held up when an Eastern Airlines plane ran into a flight of ducks, damaged its tail and had to return to Chicago...