Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure, he set off in 1893 on the three-year trip he described later in Farthest North. Leaving the From frozen solidly into the drifting ice pack, Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen headed north with dog sleds and kayaks to see how far they could get. Though they did not reach the Pole, they went 320 kilometers farther north than anyone else had been. Then they had to camp...
...Island an ice floe struck the Dora, shoved her completely over an uncharted islet, cracked her beyond repair. The two men managed to reach big Banks Island with sledges & dogs, proceeded northward, sheltering themselves in snow-block houses, cooking only one meal a day, at other times chewing quok (frozen meat...
...Dominions. Great Britain's tariff law enacted last March had imposed duties against foreign goods with the provision that these duties could be applied to the Dominions after next November. Mr. Bennett wanted a market for Canadian wheat, dairy products, poultry, lumber. Mr. Bruce wanted a market for Australian frozen meat. For this pair poky Mr. Baldwin was no match. Before they were through with him Britain had committed herself to five years of free entry for Dominion foodstuffs (except the Irish Free State's) at the expense of tariffs against the rest of the world's foodstuffs...
Great Britain-Australia? Quids: 1) Free entry of frozen meats for one year, provided the imports do not exceed those of 1932. 2) Tariff preferences similar to those granted Canada on wheat, dairy products, fruits, copper, zinc, lead and asbestos, wines...
...when its members promptly offered to lend up to 50% on deposits tied up in the defunct Bank of United States. When the torrent of failures threatened to engulf a large part of the banking system last autumn, he was picked for president of National Credit Corp., which buttressed frozen institutions until organization of the R. F. C. Last week National Credit Corp. retired another $19,000,000 of its outstanding notes, bringing the total repaid to subscribing banks up to about $105.000,000. The remaining $30,000,000 is expected to be paid off before the year...