Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much about the mail. But in one of the huts, jauntily labeled Ice Cap Inn, three girls of the American Red Cross battle the loneliness and-boredom which breeds cabin fever.They mend G.I. clothes, darn socks, organize skiing and fishing trips with dogged gaiety. They gallantly journey to the isolated outposts for dances. In a country where all native settlements are off limits, where at times even the radio is blotted out by the crackle of northern lights, these Red Cross girls come as close as any one could to spelling home...
Drifting snow isolated towns, and blocked roads and rails from the Yorkshire mines to the industrial Midlands, where factories had been given the signal to resume operations this week. Great ice floes, some of them four to six miles long and dotted with thousands of gulls, swept into the Thames estuary. London, which had painfully built up coal stocks, was hard up against it again...
Grossman & Allen suggest that refrigeration might even make it possible to restore an amputated arm or leg: "If a limb is fairly cleanly amputated, for example in a sawmill accident, there is a challenge to any nearby physician to pack such a part in ice and send it along with the patient to a hospital...
There was no vegetation around the lakes, but there was plenty of ice-free rock which looked to non-geological Navy eyes as if it might be ore-bearing. There was no steam or other evidence of volcanic activity...
...hellish scheme is penetrated by a humble tide-gauge watcher, who alerts U.S. President Place. Fortunately, Place knows a little more geology than Supreme Commissar Yang. Quickly he sends planes to atom-blast Greenland's icecap. Relieved of its ice burden, Greenland rises. (It probably would, too, in a few million years.) Author Heard's fine, cheerful finish: by migrating to the cool, temperate Greenland plateau, Americans, and other men of good will, survive...