Word: box
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles celebrated the 100th anniversary of the cooperative movement this week* by buying an entire town. For $10 million the cooperative got not only the jail, the city hall and the utilities of the company town of Westwood, Calif, (pop.: 3.500), but also a sawmill, a veneer plant, a box factory and the railroads-including locomotives and a 20-mile stretch of electrified line. But the Supply Co.'s most important reason for buying the town from the Red River Lumber Co. was to get 100,000 acres of timber for packing cases for their citrus fruits...
...Growers Supply Co., formed in 1907 by packing houses that were also members of the California Fruit Growers Exchange, is the oldest major farmers' purchasing cooperative in the U.S. The Exchange markets and promotes the growers' fruit; the Supply Co. was formed to sell the packing associations box parts, nails, tissue-paper wraps, etc., at cost - i.e., by giving purchasers a share of the "profits." By 1943 the company was manufacturing insecticides and fertilizer as well as selling, and ended the year with gross sales of $13,111,753. With some of their own cash and substantial loans...
Undampened Stet. The storm left Stettinius undampened, unruffled, appar-ently well pleased with himself. When British Ambassador Lord Halifax paid a hurried call, the new Secretary put on a rare show. Popping like a jack-in-the-box from room to room, he carried on three conferences in three rooms at once. After 29 minutes of conversation snatched between pops, Lord Halifax emerged, his usually somber face wreathed in a wide grin. To newsmen who cornered him in a dim-lit State Department hall, he purred his diplomatic best: "I don't think we need to be unduly excited...
Home on the Range. In Kansas City, Mrs. Paul Fisher found the family radio out of order, the washing machine smashed, the carpet sweeper failing, sighed, "At least the ice box works." Her husband opened it and the door fell...
...SEChairman (1941-42), Judge Eicher had done his amiable best with a clumsy Justice Department mass indictment which accused 30 defendants of conspiring to Nazify the U.S. For more than seven .months he had banged a tireless, ineffectual gavel at a score of jack-in-the-box defense lawyers bent on turning his courtroom into a vaudeville stage...