“FIDO” CLEARS FOG
FROM LANDING FIELDS
Britain has disclosed a secret
dev ice which enabled Allied bomb
ers to take off and land safely on
fogbound air fields, saving the
lives of thousands of airmen.
The device is a wall of flame
fed by thousands of gallons of
gasoline. It is expected to play a
big part in postwar aviation by
eliminating the fog hazard which
often cripples commercial flying.
The invention, known as ‘FIDO’
from its full title, fog investiga
tion dispersal operations, consists
of a huge “box” of metal pipe
lines which provide lanes of fire
along airdrome runways and burn
off ground fogs.
The huge sheet of flame con
sumes 75,000 gallons of gasoline
an hour at the rate of 6,000 gal
lons per aircraft landed. In two
and one-half years of experiment
ation and operation FIDO has
burned up 100,000 tons of gaso
line.
FIDO at the outset was only a
line of orchard heaters like the
HOW THOSE IRISH
DO GET AROUND
SALT LAKE CITY—(/PI—Capt.
W. L. Monson would like it a lit
tle better if his dog could under
stand English. But the animal,
picked up by Monson in Italy,
will answer only to commands
spoken in Italian. Monson learned
enough Italian so he and his Irish
setter get along fine but the air
man’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
L. Monson, admit they can’t make
“Rutsy” understand a word.
I smudge pots used in America.
Later a gigantic coke brazier a
thousand yards long was tried suc
cessfully, but gasoline subsequent-;
ly proved the best medium to
fight the British fog, which had
become a worse menace than the
flak oyer Germany.
The first FIDO went into opera
tion Nov. 19, 1943, and since then
2,500 planes have been safely
landed at all fields with a FIDO,
in addition to hundreds of lost
craft that used the flames as a
beacon light. —Chicago Tribune
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WASHINGTON
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Federal Reserve says bank rec
ords disclose nation-wide ten
dency to conserve savings, includ
ing war bonds; there’s no evidence
of reckless, spendthrift buying.
. . . Tax reduction on individual
incomes will be roundly three per
cent, effective Jan. 1. . . . Auto in
dustry expects to be turning out
75 per cent of prewar production
by December; 160 per cent by
next June. . . . New photo films
for civilians must age three
months after manufacture; but
military surpluses will ease sup
ply meanwhile. . . . U. S. foreign
policy no longer contemplates
raising world living standards to
U. S. level by loans and gifts. . •. .
Tammany Hall’s bamboo tele
graph reports that James A. Far
ley will seek Mead’s Senate seat
next year. . . . Harding County,
S. D. (Buffalo) showed greatest
wartime population increase, 170
per cent; Benton County, Wash
ington, 160 per cent. Most in
creases around new plants were
20 to 60 per cent. . . . Anthracite
industry, encouraged by better
manpower picture and more min
ing equipment, predicts sufficient
supply for “comfort on an increas
ing scale this winter.” . . . Seated
after 18 months’ army service in
Europe, California’s new Senator
Knowland, proclaims America the
light of the world—“to show that
a free people can solve their eco
nomic problems without surren
dering their political and econo
mic freedom.” . . . Forty-three U.!
S. corporations now list total as-!
sets of $1,000,000,000 or more; 27
are banks or insurance companies,
remainder rails and industrials, as
AT&T, Pennsy, SO-NJ, GMC, U.S.
Steel, NYC, Union Pacific, South
ern Pacific, Atchison, B&O, Beth
lehem, Ford, du Pont. . . . Con
gress won’t grant President au
thority to reorganize executive
agencies until war powers expire.
. . . One of OPA’s last affirmative
acts was to put a ceiling of 50
cents on carnival snapshots in Ha
waii—“with Hula Girl, 75 cents.”
—Nation’s Business.
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TOUCH DECISIO N—Natalie Wood, child actress whose
father gave her a baby turkey to celebrate getting a film role,
doesn’t know whether she can part with the pet for Thanksgiving.
Nylon netting is used for Army
sleeping hammocks in the South
Pacific because it doesn’t appeal
to termites, and because it resists
mold, dries quickly, is mildew
proof, and weighs less than cotton,
although it has nearly twice its
tensile strengh.
Here’s a Japanese national past
time that’s taking a nose dive. Ac
cording to Encyclopaedia Britan
nica kite flying is extremely pop
ular in Japan. Even the trades
people used to indulge in flying
kites while they waited for cus
tomers.
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