Word: subzero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousands-of children into life. Many a Finnish logger had come to his office in little (pop. 452) Prentice, Wis. to be patched up after a knife fight. There had been fevers, croups, contagions, the flu epidemic of 1919, when Doc was out on the drifted roads for eight subzero days & nights, .with a steaming horse pulling his sleigh and a fresh animal trotting behind. On his lonely rides Doc had worn out the sleigh, a buggy, a snowmobile, a Chewy, a Star and 15 Fords...
Captain Robert Thompson, who commands the Scouts, picks his men for one chief quality: ability to live for long periods off the barren Alaska land, subzero blasts to mosquito-clotted summer mugginess. Their physical endurance is far beyond the ordinary soldier's; one Scout walked 90 miles over corrugated tundra in three days. Scouts use Trapper Nelson packs instead of the Army's steel-framed rucksack, shun Army K and C rations for dehydrated beef and other foods which weigh less. A Scout's greatest fear is that he may fall through the ice, numb his hands...
...down the U.S., ice, snow, winds and subzero temperatures last week slowed the greatest long-distance movement of holiday travelers on record. Rail-riding Gremlins (who were harrying railroad operations long before the Wright brothers ever flew) were out in force. They clogged switches with snow, short-circuited signal lights, froze steam connecting lines between cars, iced the rails on steep grades, drank all the coffee in dining cars. Morning after morning the swank Twentieth Century Limited slid into Manhattan two to four hours late. On many another train, four to 13 hours late, passengers stood in vestibules, slept...