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Just above Dubuque, the Coast Guard's Del Commune ran into real trouble last week. The Mississippi's Dam No. 11 was frozen tight; the little towboat had to stand by for five hours while men thawed out the valves with hot water, cut away 20-inch slabs of ice from behind the gates, finally nursed them open. Then the Del Commune moved upstream through the locks-into an icefield that stretched from bank to bank as far as the eye could...
...Commune's men looked at the ice, at each other, at the 85-ton ice plow attached to their boat's blunt bow. Their job, if they could do it, was to clear the Mississippi's channel so that oil barges could get to Minneapolis by the first week in April, two weeks before shipments had ever gone through before. Behind them, in St. Louis, the barges waited. Ahead, in Minneapolis, war factories waited for the oil. But the ice was thick, the weather still bitter cold, the Mississippi stubborn...
First Night Out. Engines pounded. Grizzled old Pilot Joe Lloyd, who has spent nearly half a century on the river, pointed the Del Commune straight ahead. The ice growled, snapped, cracked. Two ducks beat a hasty retreat to the brown Wisconsin shore, Slowly, laboriously, the towboat crunched forward. A snowstorm blew up; night came early; Captain Joe turned on the two big searchlights...
...going was tougher now. Captain Joe had to back the boat up, make his run, go pounding into the ice with jolts that cracked the necks of the crew. Each time the Del Commune bit off no more than 30 yards. Soon the snow fell faster: flakes danced defiantly in the searchlights, the beams traveled a few hundred feet and died. Captain Joe shrugged. "I don't know where the hell I'm at," he said. "They's no use going nowhere when you can't see where...
...modern Houses, rather than the traditional and hallowed halls of the Yard. There will be some, of course, quartered in the southern-most part of the Yard, but the majority will live on the other side of Massachusetts Avenne's trolley tracks. All Freshmen, nevertheless, will dine and commune in one or another of the various Houses...