Word: froze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Coast householders last week fretted and froze over the fuel oil problem, they at least had one big consolation: thousands of nonwar businesses were in trouble too. OPA's order to slash oil use up to 40% was playing havoc with hotels and laundries, stores and office buildings with their own private power plants, semi-war industries like paper mills and textile dyers. Examples...
...Portland, hiked gross revenues threefold to $5,000,000, lifted profits from zero to over $400,000. Meanwhile Hunter made a long survey flight to Alaska, followed it with a CAB petition for a commercial route to Fairbanks, others to New York City and Washington. But the war froze these petitions in their pigeonholes, forced Airman Hunter to look for something else. He found it in a big Army contract to fly anything & everything from Minneapolis to Alaska...
Child's Play. In Washington, the WPB froze ice cream...
...snow, winds and subzero temperatures last week slowed the greatest long-distance movement of holiday travelers on record. Rail-riding Gremlins (who were harrying railroad operations long before the Wright brothers ever flew) were out in force. They clogged switches with snow, short-circuited signal lights, froze steam connecting lines between cars, iced the rails on steep grades, drank all the coffee in dining cars. Morning after morning the swank Twentieth Century Limited slid into Manhattan two to four hours late. On many another train, four to 13 hours late, passengers stood in vestibules, slept in aisles, heaped baggage...
...They emerged like cats from everywhere, knives between their teeth. Flares did not frighten them. They broke into our right flank. Then the terrible thing happened that froze the blood of all of us. ... Men, women and children flung themselves into the attack...