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...Alcazar fall in the Spanish Civil War. He wrote how the Finnish cold froze cigaret butts between puffs...
WASHINGTON -- President Roosevelt, in an unprecedented move tonight froze all balances and foreign exchange transactions in this country involving Norway Denmark, or their nationals to prevent their withdrawal under German pressure...
...while the rest of the U. S. was busy with World War I, a hunter bagged some pheasants which he wanted to keep for his Christmas dinner. As an accommodation, an ice-plant operator named J. A. Winchell plunked the birds into a water-filled milk can, froze them in a solid ice cake. On Christmas Day the frozen fowl came out of the ice cake fresh...
...harvest last autumn uncounted thousands of women, children and old men marched into French fields. They worked as never before, but an early frost made speed imperative and lack of experienced man power was acutely felt. In many cases, partially gathered crops froze before they could be binned and much of the vintage was completely lost. Piles of rotted beets still lie along the roads of France. In Paris last week the cry "Man power on the farms in February and March for the spring sowing is as important as man power on the Maginot Line!" was raised by Parliamentary...
...Bonnet diplomatic chef-d'oeuvre was a French-German treaty of "friendship" signed by him and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Paris in late 1938. They drank a toast together during the festivities. The treaty "froze" the French-German border, provided for consultation between the two powers in case of dispute...