Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Proceed with the fertilizer program. . . . Acquire some phosphate land. . . . While the phosphorus plant is getting under way, work out plans for a complete cycle of processes, perhaps including Portland cement and dry ice...
...nearby Yorkship Elementary School. Month ago he had an idea for currying the favor and patronage of their parents. To Yorkship School's 250 pupils he announced that each youngster who received an A in deportment on his monthly report card would get one 15-cent ice cream soda on the house. Last week Yorkship's teachers passed out the fateful report cards. Presently, in breathless twos and threes, the first arrivals raced up to Charles Balaban's soda fountain, exhibited their A's. Mr. Balaban amiably began to set them up. Soon they came...
Many visitors to the exhibition liked best a number of ice-cold, clear abstractions of streets and buildings by 37-year-old Francis Criss, rejected for Williamsburg because out of key with allotted color schemes. Approved were smooth murals...
...Manhattan, the Circumnavigators Club gave a testimonial dinner for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, famed Arctic & Antarctic explorer. In a setting designed to resemble Byrd's Little America camp, members wearing parkas presented him with a life-sized penguin made of ice. An Eskimo dog wandered around among the tables. Admiral Byrd showed motion pictures of his Antarctic expeditions, revealed that except for the money he made by lecturing he would be completely broke, was "pretty nearly broke" anyway...
...Ice cream and fertilizers made more jobs in April, as business moved to satisfy the seasonal demands of gullets and gardens. But seasonal increases in nonagricultural fields fell far short of normal April figures, according to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins last week. Madam Secretary estimated that since fall, 3,000,000 U. S. workers have been laid off. Those who still have jobs are getting lighter pay envelopes than a year ago, although most hourly rates are unchanged since against union resistance it is easier to cut hours than rates. As usual in depressions, payrolls have dropped faster than...