Word: iced
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...patrol steamship lanes, chart location of icebergs, figure the speed and direction of iceberg-drift, issue warning to Atlantic liners. Though equipped with mines designed to blow icebergs to pieces, they often find bergs which explosives can hardly injure. An iceberg may contain 36,000,000 tons of ice, eight-ninths of which are below the surface of the water. When dynamited, a giant berg merely loses a few large chunks, which then become small bergs, or "growlers," and float faithfully along with the mother-berg. Thus the Tampa and Modoc are detectors rather than destroyers...
Died. David Septillu, aged "Reindeer King," wealthiest Alaskan Eskimo; on ice-locked St. Lawrence Island, Bering Sea, A rescue plane made repeated attempts to get through a blizzard in order to carry him to surgical aid, and medical instructions were radioed every hour to his nurse, from Nome...
...Iceman. Twenty-one years ago one Samuel Rubel, immigrant from Riga (Latvia), peddled ice in Brooklyn. Now he is president of Rubel Coal & Ice Co. and worth $25,000,000. But withal he is not a nice man, declared sundry petty ice peddlers, when Mr. Rubel tried to freeze them out of business the past year by giving free ice to their customers. For that, the Kings County grand jury last week indicted him, and 28 people sued him for damages...
...will be the only man who has the made any sort of a comprehensive exploration in this region, and part of his work in fact, will involve the substantiation and elaboration of the reports made by these previous expeditions. The report of Hall, for example, in regard to the ice of Bruce Glacier which he traced into a canyon 20 by 100 feet will be followed up by Ostheimer and if possible he will make a more complete observation...
...cooks. They will have to make their way into the district which is to be the scene of their operations over rough and unexplored mountainous regions, and it is probable that the trail for the last 14 miles or so will have to be opened by blasting through the ice. This portion of the Jaspar National Park, which includes in its boundaries about 4000 square miles, includes 20 unclimbed peaks, all over 10,000 feet high and hundreds of square miles of still unexplored territory. Mt. Tsar the objective of the Ostheimer expedition is probably the highest of these unclimbed...