Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enlarged on 44 U. S. products including fresh apples and pears, false teeth, leaf tobacco, canned salmon, logs & lumber, silk hosiery, automobiles, typewriters, radios, electric refrigerators, steam engines, circular saws, farm machinery. France promised to maintain the existing rates on such U. S. products as dried peaches, motion pictures, frozen salmon...
Eskimos "can tolerate pain, extreme cold, and fatigue." When the Montreal doctor stopped at Pond Inlet on Baffin Island, he encountered a native who, impatient at the delay of healing a frozen foot, had shortly before amputated the gangrenous portion himself. The wound was healing and the man, "with the aid of a cane, assisted at the unloading of the cargo...
...hunting and fishing had brought them so little profit in recent years that they were undernourished. At the epidemic's darkest moment, Dr. Greist had 13 dead Eskimos lying in his Presbyterian church waiting until their tribesmen could get together enough wood for coffins, dig graves in the frozen earth...
...Gulf, formed over Texas, moved slowly northeast over the Appalachian Highlands. The moisture cooled, fell in torrents on a land just emerging from one of its severest winters on record. Its hillsides were blanketed with wet snow, its streams and rivers jammed with thawing ice. The soil was deep-frozen, rock-hard. . The melting rains coursed off the Appalachian hillsides as if they had been sloping tin roofs. Monstrously gorged rivers roared like millraces, burst their narrow channels. From Maine to Kentucky a vast, swirling chaos enveloped the valley towns and cities...
...deadlock was avoided when Alden B. Dawson, director of the laboratory, intervened in favor of the ether and issued a form letter suggesting that, in view of the original purpose of the "cold rooms," their use as convenient, oversize Frigidaires for frozen puddings, etc., should cease...