Word: icefields
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frozen tight; the little towboat had to stand by for five hours while men thawed out the valves with hot water, cut away 20-inch slabs of ice from behind the gates, finally nursed them open. Then the Del Commune moved upstream through the locks-into an icefield that stretched from bank to bank as far as the eye could...