Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billion eggs laid in the U. S. last year, no fewer than two billion were broken, canned and frozen. In this state they have been or will be purchased and thawed out for use by big manufacturers of mayonnaise, macaroni, pastry, candy and ice cream. Frozen eggs differ from cold-storage eggs in that they are packed in bulk, not in the shell, are not merely chilled but actually frozen at sub-zero temperatures and may thus be preserved for from one to two years, whereas cold-storage eggs are usually kept not more than six months. Last week frozen...
Said Commissioner McNanamy and two associates in a strong dissenting opinion: "The decision of the majority hews too closely to the letter of the law in disregard of its spirit and fails to recognize the practical aspects, with the result that the air mail carriers are frozen in their present positions regardless of the public need for additional service and their ability to furnish...
...energies of a diminutive snow-removal crew have been expended mainly in sanding icy walks this year, or clearing drains of slush. No icicles have broken or punctured roofs; no exposed washbowl plumbing in Hollis and Stoughton has frozen up. This accounts for a further saving of $4000. According to Johnson, zero temperature is necessary to freeze the more ancient Yard plumbing...
...cover. Wind, sleet and snow beat down on the old dog, but he, who had never in his life broken a point, refused to do so now. Next morning his master found him, half-buried in a snowdrift, still on point-head high, tail out like a champion, frozen dead...
...Nazi finance, it also called their attention to the anomalous position of the big U. S. banks which are involuntary German creditors by virtue of the famed "standstill agreements," the seventh of which was concluded last month. Under these agreements German credits extended by U. S. banks and frozen since 1931 have been cut in six years from $600,000,000 to $114,000,000. Interest has been paid regularly at rates varying from 2% to 4¼%. Moreover, these banks hold a considerable amount of Reich Treasury notes on which 3½% interest not only is paid but paid...