Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as time ran out on the 30-day deadline, beer went up a penny a glass, coffee 10 to 13? a pound. Then OPA announced percentage increases on 20 more consumer items. Up went electric ranges (9%), box springs (12%), vacuum cleaners (7%), chinaware (7%), radios & phonographs (3%). Estimated cost to the public: $150,000,000 a year...
...were enough to make Cellini do a double roll in his grave. For example, Dali had decided to picture an incident when Cellini was five, and saw a lizard among the hot coals in the fireplace. The incident was memorable to Cellini, because his father "gave me a great box on the ears-and spoke as follows: 'My dear little boy, I am not striking you for any wrong that you have done, but only to make you remember that the lizard which you see in the fire is a salamander, a creature which has never been seen before...
...Self-Running 10-Inch Scale-Model Delivery-Truck Kit Powered by Magic Motor"- a toy that is easily assembled by any father who follows the simple directions: "Pass Section F through Slot AA, taking care not to fold tabs behind washers (see Fig. 9). . . . Lock into box shape by inserting tabs C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L into slots C,D,E,F,G,H,I,K, and L. . . ." - "with a bestial oath, I drove a safety pin through them and lashed them to the roof...
...weather moviegoers are crazy over horses, music, slapstick, fancy dress, Technicolor and Bette Davis playing twins. Variety's totting up of midsummer winners at the box office...
...black market, season tickets to Salzburg's festival cost 900 schillings, about six months' pay for an average Austrian worker. In the center box, filled in the old days with European royalty and U.S. millionaires, the native citizenry could ogle General Mark Clark, his wife and daughter, the Archbishop of Salzburg, and Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl...