Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospital got refrigerators, fluorescent lighting, a fluoroscope. In short order, the town added a night school, a movie house, a public library, a daily newspaper, a radio station. Today, Tecuala boasts a population of 13,000 v. 1,000 only five years ago, and industry is arriving-an ice plant, two shoe factories, two ice-cream plants, two carpentry shops, a small shipyard on a nearby island. Said Tecuala's proud mayor: "Literally, I have witnessed our emergence from the dark ages into an age of light...
...Pushkinskaya Street where he lived in the 30's, paid a visit to the famed Lux (renamed Excelsior) Hotel, onetime headquarters of the Comintern, from which hundreds of foreign Communists were dragged in midnight raids during the great purges. Taking refuge from crowds of gaping Russians in an ice-cream parlor, Tito ordered champagne and cakes...
...made a sideline of busting hailstorms. Whenever an unusually black and mean-looking thunderhead drifted toward the sugar-beet fields of the North Platte Valley, Cook would fly into it, seeding its turbulent heart with silver-iodide particles. This maneuver provided the cloud with plenty of nuclei for ice to form on, so the hailstones did not grow big enough to fall and cut up the tender beet leaves...
Married. Sonja Henie, 43, Norwegian-born ice skater and sometime cinemactress (Sun Valley Serenade); and Niels Onstad, 46, wealthy Norwegian shipping executive; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
...tree's end products. The industry now squeezes marketable products from as much as 75% of the tree v. 30% in 1935. It has developed more than 4,000 wood derivatives, which are being used in an ever-widening range of products from asphalt shingles to vanilla ice cream...