Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voyage, the steaks will be cooked on a Radarange, which does the job electronically in half a minute. On the big ship's bridge are two Fathometers to sound the ocean's depth, and a Mariners Pathfinder, whose radar eyes will spot icebergs or approaching vessels through fog or darkness...
...lowering fog that shrouded the cliffs of Dover one morning last week, an unseen foghorn moaned. As if summoned by the echoes, 178 sallow-faced workmen, each carrying a brown paper parcel or a battered cardboard suitcase, trudged along the quay of Dover Marine Station and straggled up the gangplank of a trim Belgian steamer, the S.S. Koenig Albert. The men were Italian miners, recruited to dig coal in fuel-hungry Britain; they were being sent away because British miners refused to work with foreigners (TIME, May 26). Most will find jobs in Belgian pits...
...Conditioned Fog. Because most of the companies make other products as well as air conditioners, the industry is shrouded in secrecy and a fog of confusing claims. There are three types of air conditioners: 1) small units that fit in the window and cool only one room, 2) package units which link up with the heating system and serve the whole house, 3) "heat" pumps which cool or heat the house, in season...
With the punctuality of a suburban commuter catching the 8:01, the 13,500-ton U.S. cruiser Saint Paul one morning last week slipped through the early morning fog into the North Korean port of Kojo...
...Dartmouth's Bill Beck, the 22-year-old who placed fifth for the U.S. in the Olympic downhill race, whistled down, his skis chattering like Tommy guns on the bumpy ice. Brooks Dodge, also a Dartmouth man and Beck's Olympic teammate, loomed out of the fog at terrific speed, frantically clawing at his misted goggles. One skier blindly pounded on to the flat before he knew he had reached it, hit a bump, hurtled into the air and pinwheeled four times before he hit the ground...