Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They giggled at him--ah, those college youngsters, what they won't do--pointed him out to one another, licked their ice-cream cones, vanilla and chocolate doubleheaders. And rolled...
...generate electricity for power, light, and cooking, skis, wolf-pelt sleeping bags, guns, sledges, a phonograph with 15 records, radio, chess set, cigarets (cigars for holidays), cameras, books, and a dog to warn of bears. Everything will be divided into five caches so that a sudden crumpling of the ice-floe cannot cause disaster...
...most direct (6,050 mi. against the present 11,000), involves stops at Archangel. Franz Josef Land, the Pole and the mouth of the Athabaska River in Alaska. Of greater value, however, are likely to be the expedition's magnetic observations, investigations of the direction and speed of ice-drifts, depths of the polar ocean, chemical and physical properties of different strata of water...
...always been successfully overcome. Last week Douglas Aircraft Co. was busy perfecting a reinforcement for the wing where the de-icer is attached, and B. F. Goodrich Co.. maker of the deicers, was busy hunting for a way to strengthen the rubber. Both promised results by next ice weather...
...Rubber boots on the leading edge that pulsate by compressed air, break ice away...