Word: casket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greyhound busses ran out of Birmingham, no meat was delivered in Albany, no caskets made at the Tennessee Coffin & Casket Co. Boston, home of the cod, was low on fish because of a fishermen's dispute. The strike of 3,000 A.F. of L. machinists at Stamford's Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. was in its third month. In seven states, workers at Libby-Owens and Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants stayed away for the twelfth straight week, crippling the supply of glass to auto manufacturers not beset with strikes of their...
...with an obsequial engineer, the so-called patient (who may in his lifetime have been a realtor, soda-counter fizzician or canine-control officer) is first preserved by an expert sanitarian, then garbed in a slumber-robe, then laid in his slumber-cot, and finally whisked off in a casket-coach to his appointed burial-abbey...
...most illustrious displaced person was replaced last week. In 814, Charlemagne, first great founder of a western bloc in Europe, was buried in the basilica he had built in Aachen's cathedral. The body of the 6-ft. 4-in. monarch reclined in a silver-gilt casket, knobby with precious stones...
Habeas Corpus. In St. Louis, Mortician August Kron Jr. confessed to police that "relatives would not put out the money for the funeral," led them to the basement where the embalmed body of a woman had lain in an open wooden casket for 40 years...
...Caruso's body was displayed under glass in a white marble sarcophagus for eight years until Mrs. Caruso appealed to the Italian Government, had the casket closed...