Word: smog
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...golden Indian summer when Ed arrived. Rittenhouse Square, hemmed in by the old brownstone houses of an old aristocracy, was patterned with pale sunshine. The city was heavy with factory mists and factory stinks. But as much as anything else, smog and smells were evidences of Republican hardihood. On top of City Hall-above the chambers where a bland, bluff Republican machine had reigned with scarcely an interruption for 58 years-Father William Penn lifted a smog-smudged hand in benediction over the city whose wealth and power were created by high tariffs and Republican enterprise...
...smog produced by Congress' attempt to protect G.I.s from political propaganda (TIME, July 24 et ante) last week began to clear a little...
Southern Governors milled all week in the lobbies of Washington's Mayflower and Statler Hotels. One Governor emerged from the smog of cigar smoke and politicking long enough to sum up: "We go into meetings to cuss him-but we just can't figure out any other answer than...
...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...
...years, St. Louis has choked in "smog"-mixture of fog and smoke belched out by furnaces burning southern Illinois soft coal (TIME, March 4). To clear the air, the city recently passed an ordinance requiring smokeless fuel or the installation of equipment to burn soft coal smokelessly. Mining towns of south ern Illinois now vow they will boycott St. Louis merchants (who sell Illinois coal miners more than $50,000,000 worth of products a year...