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...girl had met with foul play, they reasoned, she might never have left the building. They drained two 9,000-gallon water tanks on the roof, another 5,000-gallon tank in a 13th-floor engine room. They shoveled and sifted their way through 150 tons of pea coal in basement bins. They searched the building's 550 rooms, foot by foot. They found no trace of her: Where had Valsa been going, in the snow, before dawn? She had only an amateur interest in Indian political affairs. If she was dead, where was her body...
...Pea-soup fog might be catastrophic to invasion barges, compelled to navigate blindly. It would also rob the invaders of a chance to exploit initial advantage, help the enemy to shift his troops without air hindrance...
...many kinds of fog-dry, wet, sea, land, smog (smoky), black (sooty), ice, pea-soup (moderately smoky, yellowish, once thought peculiar to London)-most are not troublesome to flyers because they are shallow or ephemeral. But there is great danger in advection fogs, produced by the drifting of warm air over cold land or water or snow banks (common off Labrador): they are deep-sometimes thousands of feet-and treacherous...
When Education moved in, it found that the former occupants had left but two things in the house--a large banner, reading "W. Rodman Peabody", body. On this basis Philip J. Rulon, and a book by Francis Greenwood Pea-associate professor of Education, named his headquarters Peabody House...
...past six weeks Farmer Stiles has been rising an hour earlier than usual, just to poke around his parched 440 acres. Last week the pea vines were fading to white splotches on their poles. Tomatoes and beans were all that had been salvaged from the quarter-acre vegetable patch...