Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prison and state officials. Guards and state troopers, by specific demand of the prisoners, stayed discreetly in the background as the convicts released their eight hostages, submitted to a search for weapons by their own leaders, then marched triumphantly to the mess hall for a victory banquet of steak, ice cream (imported from the outside) "and all the trimmings...
There were eighty wines to choose from, as well as beer, punch, soft drinks, ice cream, sandwiches, and cakes. Oh yes, there was an orchestra too, the Boston Pops, no less-or at least a reasonable facsimile (the B.S.O. is currently touring Europe...
...began with a Danish survey map made in 1938. His mathematical predictions agree with measurements made by French Explorer Paul-Emile Victor as recently as 1950. Victor's party, however, had to make a 700-mile trek across southern Greenland. Every ten miles they measured ice thickness by detonating a charge of dynamite and timing the echo as it bounced from the rock floor far below. Admittedly more accurate, Victor's seismic soundings were time-consuming and limited. As check-points for Nye's formulas, they take on new importance...
Beyond Death. The danger zone, Luyet found, was around - 20° F. At that temperature, moisture in the experimental tissues freezes into ice crystals, rearranging each cell's molecular structure into a "thermodynamically stable configuration" -the scientists' fancy name for death. What the experimenters needed was a quick-freeze system that would jump through the "death stage" in a split second, turn their research tissues into a vitreous, glasslike state before internal liquid had a chance to crystallize...
...became chairman. A graduate of Carnegie Tech, Stewart did a hitch in the Navy during World War I, then got an engineering job with the Rieck-McJunkin Dairy Co. of Pittsburgh, subsidiary of National Dairy. In 1944, Stewart was named vice president of National Dairy to run Midwestern ice-cream and dairy operations, was promoted to executive vice president six years later...