Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...profitable to the Foxes and the Boxes. Mr. Fox burns a few trainloads of grain in order to raise the price of corn. Mr. Box gives orders to spill tens of thousands of bottles of milk into the river in order that milk may not be sold too cheaply...
...Among us the mechanical helpers belong, not to Mr. Fox and to Mr. Box, but to the workers. And this at once changes the whole situation. Workers do not wish to break up automobiles; they do not wish to pour milk into the river...
...Court of Assizes in authorizing contempt proceedings against the Toronto Star for publishing an interview with Sergeant John Leopold, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who testified against Communists on trial. Said the court: "Newspapers have no business publishing an interview of things that were given outside the witness box while this trial is proceeding...
...year ago, Chicagoans were surprised to find 2,000 bewildered, chilly box turtles crawling about a vacant lot on Michigan Avenue. Apparently they had been abandoned by someone who had planned to commercialize turtle-racing, found it profitless. The turtles were liberated in Duneland near Waukegan, Ill. (TIME...
Last week, at the intersection of State and Harrison Streets, 15 blocks from the turtle lot on Michigan Avenue, two policemen found a dirty, fatigued box turtle lumbering along in the gutter. A number -2-10-on the turtle's back convinced them that he was one of last year's 2,000 racing turtles, perhaps returned from Waukegan...