Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Great Thaw. Wendell Willkie had two purposes in the West: 1) to meet & greet GOParty workers by the hundreds; 2) to urge the nation to unity, both in & out of the Republican Party...
...record conferences in Salt Lake City's Newhouse Hotel, Boise's Hotel Boise, Seattle's Masonic Temple, Tacoma's American Legion Hall and Portland's Multnomah Hotel. Newsmen, recalling the hostility-charged Willkie confabs in St. Louis and Washington last year, noted a great thaw all along the line. In Boise, the 300 tickets for the Willkie luncheon sold in 20 minutes; in Seattle, Willkie shook 2,000 hands in 40 minutes. Party workers flocked to see and hear the candidate who, only the week before, was supposed to be poison...
Over the caked mud of the Kuban region and on thaw-softened battlefields stretching northward for 1,500 miles, the Wehrmacht and the Red Army prepared for the summer struggles...
Even in the warmest years, ice stops this flow for some four months. Last year, with an early thaw, the Lakes opened late in March, stayed open until Dec. 9. Thereby total ore deliveries for the open season soared to almost 92,000,000 tons, a record. This year the goal is around 95,000,000 tons-and already four weeks (good for 8,650,000 tons in 1942) have been lost in the big freeze. Only counter balance: 16 new ore boats, good for monthly deliveries of about 1,000,000 tons...
...freighters were trapped in the icy fastness of Whitefish Bay. Even the Sainte Marie's propeller, which sucks water from under the ice so that its heavy bow can more readily pulverize it, could not free them-they just had to sit & wait for a thaw...