Word: ice
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...reserve captain in R. A. F. to make it all pukka. They segregated the reckless Americans, rather than salt them into the conservative R. A. F. Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow. Active commander is Squadron...
More than 600 miles north and almost 1,000 miles east of New York City lie the grim rocks of Labrador. In Labrador's brief summer they are spangled with bluebells and red fireweed, but nine months of the year they are choked with ice. The 4,500 natives, mostly of Anglo-Saxon descent, spend their lives catching codfish, huddle together, like wild birds, in bleak villages with names like Run-By-Chance or Port Disappointment. Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, whose adopted home it was, called it, as explorers did. "the land God gave to Cain...
After his first year Dr. Grenfell built two small hospitals, got the help of two doctors and two nurses. In the winter he had to travel by dog team over wastes of "slob" ice and huge sheets of smooth "whelping ice." Once he drifted out to sea on a pan of ice, had to kill three of his dogs and use their skins for blankets, their leg bones as a staff for a makeshift flag...
...Happens on Ice-A Musical Icetravaganza (music by Vernon Duke & others, lyrics by Al Stillman; produced by Sonja Henie & Arthur Wirtz) is a vast and chilly vaudeville which slides across 50 tons of ice covering the enlarged stage of the Rockefellers' Center Theatre. Before and behind a curtain composed of 315,720,000 fibres of shimmering glass, a large company of skaters perform a series of fleet and charming ballets interrupted by specialty turns and, not often enough for many spectators, Joe Cook. Steel runners on ice add many mobile possibilities to the human body, and these have never...
...small unsecured loans outstanding are against single men of 21 to 36, who presumably will exceed married men among draftees. (Of the draft eligibles, only about one in ten will march to camp.) If a draftee cannot make payments while in uniform, personal-finance outfits will ice the loan, catch their man when he goes back to work. With only a fraction of their business affected, moneylenders expect the boom in business will offset possible draft losses...