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Consumers responded with abandon to labor-saving devices: they bought 2,000,000 frostless refrigerators, 1,600,000 electric carving knives, hundreds of thousands of electric shoe polishers and self-cleaning ovens.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may prove valuable, however, only for frostless regions.

From Florida: An Ideal Cattle State by Association, Florida State Live Stock

There are a few places practically frostless where bananas can be grown in this State, but there is no promise in commercial production because they can be so cheaply imported from the tropics.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

Milo is one of the sorghums and will only grow during the frostless period, like Kafir, Egyptian corn and other sorghums.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

To our surprise we learn that this is practically frostless, and that since this has been discovered many young orchards of oranges and lemons have been planted.

From A Truthful Woman in Southern California by Sanborn, Kate