Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vandal Nearing Columbus, Ohio s Union Station half an hour late, Penn sylvania's No. 614 (Cleveland-Cincinnati) hurtled through an open switch, piled into a string of empty box cars, pinned three trainmen in the overturned locomotive cab. Police and railroad officials said the switch had been locked open by a vandal...
...Washington office, told them that the U. S. should build up its Army from 136,000 to 300,000 men in preparation for war in Europe. Warned he: "The situation in Europe is so bad that anything can happen at any time. The Saar at present is a tinder box. . . . Japan will never play a hand with us unless...
Consolidated also prints cigar box portraits. In its files are the fat Teutonic nudes of yesteryear, who, thinly veiled in gauze, lie languorously across a wolf's skin (Wolff's Choice), or step daintily into a mountain brook (The Lone Queen), or sedately duel with rapiers in a grove (El Duelo). Today Consolidated makes its money from more prosaic designs for cigars like La Palina. La Palina was originated by Sam Paley, father of President William S. Paley of Columbia Broadcasting System. The inside of every La Palina box is adorned with a picture of Mrs. Sam Paley...
...season's close. The strange offices of the Al Munro Elias Bureau on Manhattan's 42nd Street contain the most elaborate baseball library in the world; a card index of every major league player for the last 20 years, with a lifetime record of his performances ; every box score kept since 1876. In the summer its eight clerks make a permanent record of every play in every major and most minor league games played in the U. S. In the winter, a staff of three checks figures, helps the National League compile "official" data such as was released...
...last fortnight the venerable Portland Oregonian felt obliged to print the foregoing "plain statement of facts'' in a two-column box on its front page. It may have helped squelch a false rumor, but it could not make the Oregonian's 92.500 readers understand what had happened to their newspaper in the past month. Still dazed were they from that November morning when they saw. for the first time, a picture at the top of Page One. It illustrated not a world calamity but an ordinary sob-story...