Word: icebox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When we issued the price freeze, we put prices in the icebox," said Price Stabilizer Michael Di Salle last week. "Today, we are taking them out of the icebox. They will lie on the table for a short while; there will probably be some sweating and thawing. And then we put them in the deep freeze-for a long time...
...resist preservation by freezing. It can be preserved in several ways with its food value intact, but its flavor is apt to be ruined by any kind of tinkering. The U.S. Department of Agriculture now says that frozen, concentrated milk might soon join orange juice in the family icebox...
...best bet, says DOA, is to heat grade-A milk to 155° for 30 minutes (or to 170° for one minute). Then it is homogenized, concentrated to one-third its volume, and frozen in sealed containers. The product will keep for two weeks in a home icebox, or for eight weeks in a freezer at -10°. When thawed and diluted with good water, it tastes like fresh milk...
Custom of the Country. In Trenton, N.J., the State Civil Service Commission ruled that officers of New Jersey State Hospital had been unnecessarily severe in dismissing Stationary Fireman Paul Bauerle for stealing, when actually he was only helping himself occasionally to snacks from the hospital icebox...
...idea eventually pays off in a blaze of heroics and dynamite. But not until Kelly has gotten himself out of a picturesque Black Hand cell: a butcher's icebox where piles of homemade bombs nestle among the sides of beef...