Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Britain's airlines have not yet whipped the engine-strangling menace of carburetor ice (U. S. lines licked it in 1929 by heaters from the exhaust), was tragically demonstrated one afternoon last week. Less than two hours after Imperial Airways' four-motored flying boat Cavalier had left New York for Bermuda with eight passengers, a five-man crew, a series of terse, desperate messages began to reach the Port Washington base...
Over a windswept sea 322 miles southeast of Cape May, Cavalier suddenly radioed: "All engines failing-ice. . . . SOS . . . Landed okay . . . sinking...
...itle came dimpled 17-year-old Champion Sonja Henie, who gave an exhibition oi kating in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden the likes of which New Yorkers had never seen. In 1932 she came again-for the Winter Olympic Games-and regained for a series of charity ice carnival n a dozen U. S. cities. Every pig-ta led girl who saw her swirling in a fairy-like froth of marabou dreamed that some day she might skate like Sonja Henie...
...beginning of a U. S. figure-skating craze that did an Axel Paulsen jump when the dimpled Norwegian girl joined Hollywood's stars and her twinkle toed maneuvers reached every movie house in the country. This year the skating craze is spinning in a dizzy whirl. Ice-skating rinks have spawned in such hitherto unheard of places as Miami, Houston, Fort Worth...
...Manhattan there are ice shows on night-club floors where once there was tap dancing. In the Midwest fancy skaters have supplanted hula-hula dancers as dinner entertainment at conventions. In Los Angeles suntanned citizens skate outdoors on artificial ice in bathing suits. And many ambitious mothers, well aware that Sonja Henie has made over $2,000,000 in the three vears since she turned professional, are making sacrifices to give their little girls expensive skating lessons...