Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arctic Revolution. The Hans Hedtoft, a diesel-powered motorship, went down the ways of Denmark's Frederikshavn shipyard last August, small but sturdy and trim. The 2,857-ton freighter had been specially designed for the Danish government to withstand the pounding seas and polar ice of the wildest stretch of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the barren shores of Greenland. She had a double steel bottom, an armored bow and stern, and was divided into seven watertight compartments; she carried the most modern instrumentation, from radar to gyro, from Decca Navigator to radio-equipped life rafts. Her veteran...
...public acclaim, most Danes ignored the words of Knud Lauritzen, a private shipowner, who declared that the steel plates on the Hans Hedtoft should have been welded, not riveted, because the riveting of plates on a rigid frame does not afford enough resistance to ice pressure. The criticism was passed off as the embittered words of a private operator who would rather the government chartered his ships than build...
...nine-year-old boys fell through thin ice on the Charles River and drowned yesterday afternoon. The double fatality was the first of its kind this winter in the Cambridge area...
Gary Williams and Kevin Brady, both of Allston, were about halfway across the river opposite Howard Johnson's Restaurant on Soldiers Field Road when the ice caved in under them. Two playmates, terrified by the accident, managed to get off the ice and then quickly left the scene...
...rough night for the first trio until then. All three Friar goals were tallied while they were on the ice, as has been the case often this season. Fischer, Higginbottom and Dave Vietze, neverthe-less, were most consistent in bombarding Jim Toomey during the night, but their plays did not click. In the third period alone the first line launched eleven shots on goal...