Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rescuers picked their way among crushed, decapitated, legless bodies. When medical help arrived, the water froze in the syringes which held pain-killing drugs. Forty-eight hours later, after the wreckage had been cut through by acetylene torches, after a warehouse at Red Springs was piled high with bodies, the death toll stood at 72, including 52 servicemen, most of them home-bound for Christmas.* The injured: more than...
...Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch "froze" its total circulation, will accept no new customers...
...years, the Minneapolis investment group of Investors Syndicate, Investors Mutual, Inc. and Investors Syndicate of America has sold $1,500,000,000 in certificates to 400,000 persons. Last week SEC charged that the group had "perpetrated fraudulent practices." SEC froze the group's business, asked a Federal court order restraining the companies from paying cash surrenders and loans to certificate holders. Said SEC: investors were told that Mutual shares are safer than war bonds, and accomplish the same purpose...
High among the puffy white clouds over Kiel both the pilot and co-pilot of the B-17 Worry Wart were knocked out. Below-zero cold froze the pilot's hands and feet. The co-pilot was dead, a 20-mm. shell through his breast. Ugly flak blossoms unfolded on all sides. In & out among the clouds darted droves of enemy fighters. Worry Wart's chances of getting back to England were next to zero...
...periodic dumping of Government holdings. At the same time labor costs rose 30%. The higher wage levels didn't hold textile workers; they have gone into much better paid war jobs and have been drafted so fast that WMC last month defined them as essential civilians, froze them to their looms. But by that time a good deal of the damage was done...