Word: frozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Russia. After 24 hours the blizzard let up sufficiently for Finnish army planes to take off. They dropped sausages, blankets, hay, most of which fell into the sea. Slower but surer, Finnish and Soviet icebreakers smashed their way to the rescue. The refugees, horses and men alike, gnawed frozen fish. At the end of the third day, all but one or two of the frost-bitten fishermen had been saved, nearly half of the horses...
...authority, indicating only fitness to operate, it would require every airline to obtain a certificate of necessity & convenience from the I. C. C., submit to regulation of rates, schedules and finance like the railroads. Says Col. Young of the proposal: "Premature. . . . The industry is too young to be 'frozen' by excessive restrictions...
...graciously to searching examination for real benefits. In its purported capacity for vitalizing news and clarifying thought, the League falls far short of claims made on its behalf. Many who attend are of that encyclopaedic turn of mind which, accepting as law the written page, declaims stereotyped phrases and frozen ideas; others are of the amiable twist that leads to futile bickering over details. The majority of those present have acquired their profound knowledge of affairs by studious cramming of text books and outline magazines; still more have never so much as visited their constituencies; and all are forced...
...Manchuria was Japan's last week. Harbin, last important city not occupied by Japanese troops, fell before the fierce frost-bitten fighters of General Jiro Ta-mon. Winter was Harbin's best defender. For seven days the fur-hatted Japanese columns struggled north over a frozen desolate country in a temperature of 30° below zero. Finally they closed in on the city from the west and south...
...Stillstand Agreement was reached in August, Germany has voluntarily paid 10% of her outstanding short term debts. Some creditors received more than 10%. Future cash payments will be made first to those countries which have received the least. ¶ Still to be settled is the interest rate on these frozen loans. Foreign banks protest that they cannot charge less than they must pay their own domestic borrowers. All these interest rates vary. ¶ Banker Wiggin's international committee was most anxious to persuade creditors to convert cash advances to German banks into ten-year 6%, notes. As bait, German...