Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ellsberg on Ice...
About 50 polar expeditions ago, Lieut. De Long and the Jeannette Expedition sailed from San Francisco to seek the North Pole. This was in 1879. In 1938-after three years of research-I wrote a book about it called Hell on Ice...
Last year the Berlineys moved to Toledo, where Mike took a job with a manufacturer but set up a small laboratory of his own. In a few months Bessie had hit on a concoction for synthetic ice which at last suited her completely. She christened it "Iceolite" but has refused to name its ingredients, except to say there are 16, of which one is a vegetable oil and one a silicate. Last month a small, 600-sq. ft. rink in Toledo's Civic Auditorium was paved with the stuff and several crack skaters performed...
Said Skater Kit Klein (onetime, 1935-36, North American women's speed skating champion) : "This is the greatest thing next to real ice...
...spring book season got under way, Commander Ellsberg's Hell on Ice climbed into the best-seller class at Macy's, looked like a sure bet for nationwide lists next month, along with Hervey Allen's Action at Aqnila. Last month's published best-seller lists boiled down to these headliners...