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...usual in war, there is much improvised equipment: sterilizers made from potato cans, shower baths made from gasoline drums, hinges from shell cases, an icebox from a Coca-Cola vending machine, can openers from any old thing (though 90% of field rations come in cans, the hospital set out without a single can opener). The Evac's most elaborate contrivance is a "Hawley table," a device for holding a man's body suspended for the application of big casts, which some men from the Air Corps Ordnance Department made from spare parts...
These two books reflect the fact that U.S. readers have at last caught up with the continental statesmanship of Lincoln's and Johnson's Secretary of State, William H. Seward, who forced the purchase of Alaska ("Seward's Icebox'') amid the catcalls of the isolationists of 1867. The Japanese in the Aleutians and the new global geography have made the U.S. suddenly conscious that Alaska is nearer Seattle (as a plane flies) than Seattle is near Los Angeles...
Half the Indians in Alaska are reasonably good Episcopalians now, but when Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe was sent out to convert them the territory was still just "Seward's Icebox" and the natives were more impressed by their totem poles than by the cross...
...England arrived a ship whose entire hold had been turned into an icebox by insulating bottom and sides with boxes of frozen lard, filling with frozen meat, covering with more lard. U.S. meat packers had solved the problem of scarce refrigerator space. They had also killed two birds with one stone, since England needs both meat & lard...
...committee had stalled, still was far from a decision. Then the President suddenly wrote a friendly letter to Chairman Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, saying he would not oppose including the Seaway in an omnibus appropriation bill. This was the signal the wolves were waiting for; the door to the icebox was flung open. All of the Presidentially refrigerated cuts of pork were dragged from the hooks, even the long-dead $197,000,000 Florida Ship Canal. The smell of pork was rich over the Capitol...