Word: cartons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pack (three or four bars of soap, enough clean underwear to last until New Delhi, black tie for state occasions en route). Hagerty, who took a dry-run tour of the route in November, even thoughtfully published information on the availability of American cigarettes along the way ($5 a carton in Karachi, none to be had in New Delhi) and-a matter of vital importance to deadline-conscious newsmen-the time differential between New York and each stop...
...student vendors plod up and down the aisles, crying their wares: hotdogs, peanuts, icecream, coffee and orange drink. Last week the Agency hired over 100 students as vendors. It is big business. Their vending equipment--tanks for the liquids, baskets for the other food--had to be purchased; carton after carton of supplies ordered; and the food prepared with either ice or fire...
...many a merchant and manufacturer have joined up in a new scheme to fool the customer by promoting a "manufacturer's list price." The manufacturer advertises a "suggested retail price," which is much higher than he expects the retailer to charge, tickets his merchandise or stamps the delivery carton with the inflated price. The retailer can then drastically cut the price, show the customer the price stamped on the original carton as proof of a huge bargain. One lawnmower manufacturer advertised last spring in a trade publication that his power mowers, which he priced in ads at $154.95, could...
Cigarette Stogie. Philadelphia's Stephano Brothers put on sale a cigar the size of a king-size cigarette. Price of pack of 20: 35?. Carton of ten packs costs $3.25, includes a plastic cigar holder...
...Coke carton and coughed. "So I got sent to a hospital over there. Nearly got the flu. Most of us did. They had me in a bed by a window. I could see them building pine boxes outside. Rows of boxes waiting for us." He smiles. "I used to wonder whether the carpenter was building mine while I watched...