Word: icing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would-be rescuers-five in all-landed in a B-17 and gliders near the marooned party, and failed to get off the ice again, the men welcomed them to the gang. On the 19th day, when Colonel Beaudry landed his ski-equipped C-47, the boys smilingly showed him the bunk they had prepared for his stay. But in 38 minutes they were aboard and sweating out the jet-assisted takeoff. "We faced into the wind, counted noses, checked the engines and took off," said Co-Pilot Blackwell...
...chill fog hung over Seattle's dark, hill-bordered Boeing Field, and ice glazed the runways. Seattle Air Charter, one of the U.S.'s brood of nonscheduled airlines, postponed the eastbound flight of its DC-3 for an hour, then two hours. The big commercial lines had canceled all flights. But the owner of the DC-3 had a big payload waiting impatiently for a ride-27 Yale students from the Northwest had chartered the plane for the trip back to New Haven after the Christmas holidays...
...pilot originally scheduled to take the men back to Yale in time for Monday morning classes came to the field, "felt that ice had formed on the wings," and returned home...
When John Chase's hockey team goes against Boston College for the second time a week from tomorrow at the Arena, the chances are that Tom Moseley will be back on the ice with his second line teammates Miles Huntington and Dave Abbot. This line, which has operated together for the past two seasons, was broken up last month when Moseley was stricken with a case of chicken...
Witnesses reported that the field was glazed with ice and that there was a light fog at the time of take...