It was not until the old and unreliable steam railway lines, such as the Washington and Old Dominion Railway, were converted to electricity around 1912 and refrigerated cars were widely used, that the shipment of milk became really profitable.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
The large room was the packing and shipping room, and the work of Wiggins's crew was that of sewing the slaughtered and refrigerated sheep carcasses in burlap for shipment.
"Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective"
Ellis Parker Butler
The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book which he has too diligently studied.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith