Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toronto, the Canadian National Art Exhibition hung an Annunciation by one Evan Walters. In blue pajamas and halo the Virgin sits on a box. A Gabriel in bright yellow aviation suit points to the ceiling. Through the open door of the small shack may be seen Gabriel's airplane. Cried outraged clergymen: "Rotten! Ridiculous! Bad taste!" Director Fred Haines said that artists have often painted the Virgin in contemporary clothes, denied the picture would be removed...
Last week Florida East Coast's receivers bluntly told the holders of an issue of its equipment trust bonds to come & get their 20 mountain-type locomotives, five switching engines, 200 box cars, 100 ballast cars, three passenger cars and 20 cabooses. With traffic what it was, said the receivers, the road did not need the equipment anyway. In normal times the bondholders might sell the equipment to another road. But fearing that they could do nothing with the cars and locomotives except put them in their own back yards, the bondholders protested, and a protective committee persuaded the receivers...
Such devotion to duty did not pass unnoticed by "Uncle George'' Cameron, who made a fortune in the cement business long before he inherited the Chronicle from his father-in-law in 1925. Last week he appeared at the Chronicle with 161 jewelers' boxes. Inside each little box was a small gold medal inscribed, within laurel...
...Gandhi gets his funds. The detective spied on Gandhi, reported: "The Mahatma called to him a woman from the crowd, asked what she intended to do with such beautiful pearl earrings. While talking he gently removed them and then auctioned them off. . . . Thus does the Mahatma replenish his cash box, Sahib...
When the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Illinois Bell Telephone Co. to refund $20,700,000 to its coin-box subscribers last April, the historic Chicago rate case was by no means closed. Gathering dust in the company's files were no less than 45,000,000 collection records-115 tons of them-which had to be recalculated. Some 1,900 clerks will labor at this mighty bookkeeping for three years. More than 1,000,000 checks have to be made out, signed and mailed. And not until last week did Federal judges in Chicago...