Word: icing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Falls Church, Va. kept her furnace going by burning all her firewood, then the extension leaves from her dining-room and kitchen tables then her cat's wooden house. Police guarding the Hudson River's George Washington Bridge turned back convertibles, fear ful that jagged chunks of ice, torn by wind from the girders and cables far overhead, might crash through the fabric roofs...
...last a few Air Force helicopters whirled in to remove some of the ailing. Then police and snow-plow crews broke through. After 36 harrowing hours, the trapped 800 mushed on their way, mumbling incoherently the never-to-be-forgotten names of Howard Johnson's 28 delicious ice-cream flavors. Before most of them got home, the snow had stopped. The sun was shining...
...Fire & Ice. When short, balding Conductor Ormandy stepped before the Orchestra Hall audience, he had only two rehearsals under his belt. He had decided on a "good box office" program of standards: Bach's C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Brahms's Symphony...
...this wistful longing for talks for talk's sake is headed by Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell. The West should not insist on summit talks "supposed to put the final seal on everything," argues Gaitskell; instead, it should be willing to settle for what he calls "the ice-breaking type of conference...
...Labrador project, which shipped about 12.5 million tons last year. It plans to spend something like $300 million for equipment, a railroad and a port to get the ore to market. In winter, Hanna's fleet of 40,000-ton ore carriers will shift southward from ice-locked Labrador to Brazil, cut around the world carrying 10 million tons of ore annually to U.S. and European customers. Nor will the ships go down to Brazil empty. Hanna will load them with U.S. coal, hopes to supply Brazil's entire need. Hanna's timetable : full operations within three...