Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long-limited, long-sinewed crew men row during the fall and winter to develop form and stamina for the gruelling spring schedule. When ice-breaking becomes too hazardous for the frail prows of the Crimson shells, Coaches Harvey Love and Bert Haines bring their charges indoors in Newell to practice in the tank...
...Less than 3% of Alaska is always under ice and snow...
...Alaska was called "Seward's Folly" and "The Ice-Box of the North" because Secretary of State William Henry Seward bought the land from Russia for $7,200,000 (7? per acre) and everyone knew it was a wasteland of ice and snow, inhabited only by wolves and Eskimos...
Last week Under Secretary of the Interior Harry Slattery defrosted the Ice-Box of the North. In 94 packed pages he reported to Secretary Harold L. Ickes that the planned development of Alaska "is an inescapable moral obligation" of the U. S., that its 590,884 square miles are the "last frontier," that U. S. economy and national defense demand its large-scale settlement, preferably by public-purpose corporations such as the East India Company that developed India for Great Britain, the Plymouth Company that developed the Indian-infested wilds of Massachusetts...
...Baltic Plain is glacial country. When the ice cap was inching out over Europe, drainage toward the north was blocked; hence the plain is now crisscrossed-by old river beds that run from east to west, by rivers that now flow into the North and Baltic Seas. The new river beds and the old connecting valleys make it relatively easy for soldiers to roll across the Baltic Plain in any direction. Germany's soldiers rolled against Russia in 1914 on railroad lines built especially to serve strategic purposes. On the Russian side of the border railroafls were...