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Show Long Distance Ice Back in 1805 when there weren't ice-making machines or electric refrigerators, re-frigerators, Frederick Tudor of Saugus, Mass., had an idea. He'd be a long-distance ice man. Ice in trie tropics, he figured, would be unusual un-usual in fact it would be gold in his pockets. From this Massachusetts Massachu-setts town he shipped ice to the West Indies. Tudor personally accompanied ac-companied the first shipment to the Island of Martinique. He was richly rewarded and made many later consignments. |