Word: ices
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justice over Ice. Last winter a white trapper who heard the story reported it to Mounties at Cambridge Bay. By plane and dog sled, two policemen went up to investigate. They found the guileless Eskimos-including Eeriykoot and Ishakak -perfectly willing to talk. The police arrested the two friends, exhumed Nukashook's body for an inquest...
...broker from Ardmore, Okla. A more ardent golfer than King (he has twice won the Trans-Mississippi crown), 25-year-old Finalist Coe was the favorite as he squared off on the first tee. Both amateurs promptly began playing like amateurs. Coe, normally as cool as a barrel of ice water and deadly with a putter, three-putted the first green. Then he settled down and it was King's turn to blow...
Such recoveries are not new to Atlas Corp. or to slim, smart Floyd Bostwick Odium. Confident and ice-cool, Odium has ridden through many a ruckus chiefly by saying nothing and letting his critics talk themselves out. The son of a Midwestern Methodist minister, Odium went to Wall Street in 1917, bought & sold so shrewdly that he was boss of an investment company with assets of $14 million by the time he was 37. During the depression he snapped up bargains, now has holdings in some 30 companies through his Atlas Corp. He earned the name "Fifty Percent Odium" because...
Invalided in a Melrose Park, Pa. convalescent home, Poet Edgar Lee (Spoon River Anthology) Masters reached 80, marked the occasion by having a cigar, ice cream, cake and a shot of bourbon...
Last March, when the John Biscoe was turned back by "impenetrable ice packs," the men resigned themselves to more work. To ease the strain, the British Broadcasting Corp. beamed special news and entertainment programs their way. The best news came from Sir Miles, who radioed that when the polar summer came in December, the John Biscoe would make another attempt to break through; if it failed, the expedition could expect a pickup by plane...