Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first section (five cars) of the Capitol Limited on the B. & O. made up long ahead of time, lay in the shadiest part of the sweltering railway yards in Washington. Great tubs of ice were carried into each compartment to keep it cool. The tubs were later removed and the train pulled into the station. There Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, Secretary of State and Mrs. Kellogg (Minnesotans), Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, with aids and concomitants including 15 Secret Service men, 12 newspaper men and several photographers boarded the train.* It was hot when they started, but about...
...their instructions. The hour struck and no seaplane zoomed in from the north, nor was any signal from the smoke bombs Amundsen had taken with him visible on the horizon. Glad of a chance for action, the waiting ones had up their anchors, steamed for the edge of the ice-floes, the Hobby heading northeast, the From northwest...
Meantime, a ship from Norway approached Spitzbergen bearing two seaplanes and their pilots, with instructions to scout the ice floes but not to attempt the hazardous penetration towards the Pole...
...France, Ida Rubenstein "the superb," lion huntress, onetime fiancée of Poet D'Annunzio of Italy, organized a charity fête to finance a search for Amundsen and Ellsworth in the Pourquoi Pas, ice-worthy ship of Explorer Jean Charcot...
...might naturally be expected the soda fountains reported an unprecedented demand for cooling drinks of all sorts, one pharmacy reporting the sale of over 400 glasses of orangeade and 100 malted milks on one of the hottest days lest week. The same store consumed over 500 pounds of ice during one day and the fountain manager estimated that at least five tons of ice were used daily by all the various establishments to cool the parched throats of thirsty students...