Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order that this precious survivor of that disaster might be preserved more carefully and treated more reverently, eight Harvard graduates united to secure a silk-lined, levant morocco-covered, asbestos box in which it is kept in the Library Treasure Room. The donors were G.H. Norcross '75, E.H. Baker '81, J.P. Parmenter '81, Albert Matthews '82, Percival Merritt '82, J.A. Noyes '83, G.L. Kittredge '84, and S.W. Phillips...
...Robert Gair patented multiple dies for cutting, creasing, folding paper. Last July the biggest U. S. paperboard makers traveled secretly to the home of George Gair, 57, president and general manager of Robert Gair Co., now dominant in the folding-box field. There they discussed means of saving the industry from the effects of overproduction and price-slashing, talked about choosing some Tsar to rule them. Generally favored for this position was Secretary of Labor James John Davis who has studied conditions in the industry and made suggestions that pleased the manufacturers. While to date little has come from this...
Container Corp. Robert Gair Co. is the leading folding-box maker. Container Corp. is dominant in containers, has boxboard mills with a capacity of 1,200 tons per day. Last week Container Corp. absorbed the $5,000,000 Sefton Mfg. Corp., whose products include folding-boxes. Through this deal Container Corp. became a complete unit in the industry, in a position to expand until it becomes "the U. S. Steel of Paperboard companies." Although many more mergers must take place before such a centralization can be effected, paperboard makers hope it will happen, believe that such is the desire...
...weekly smartchart), quarreled bitterly in the middle of the night with his wife Lois Long ("lipstick"), colyumist for The New Yorker ("tables for two"). They told the police that a deep cut in his cheek was a slip-of-the-razor, not caused by her hurling a glass powder-box at him. Calming down, they decided to separate for one year...
...some robbers entered the Partos pantry, ate a box of Dr. Partos' pills, became sick, fled without their booty...