Word: crated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start of this year's strawberry season, which lasts from March till the middle of May, James Morrison petitioned the National Chain Stores Association to forbid its members selling berries at less than 1½? profit a pint, 36? a crate. Last week Kroger Grocery & Baking Co. said it would do as Mr. Morrison's Farmers Union asked...
...story of how the large picture reached that place is curious. When our old home in Newark, Ohio, was sold in 1893 the crated picture was sent to a brother in Colorado. His residence changed to California and in a short time he went to Brazil on an engineering project. The crate with the picture was in a warehouse during the earthquake and fire and later was taken down to the canyon on the small steamer which carried supplies to the lime company's colony and on its return carried the barrels of lime loaded from the wire tram...
...bottles. After visiting the "spider farm" on Lancaster Pike outside Philadelphia, Reporter Paine said that 4,000 spiders of the species Nephila plumipes (who spun the "finest webs") were busy working for M. Grantaire, that he shipped them to customers in "little paper boxes, so many dozen in each crate." that the Queen spider was named "Sara Bernhardt," that her consort, fearsome "Emile Zola," was a specimen of the famed "bird-hunting spiders of Surinam." When M. Grantaire tapped on one of her filaments, Reporter Paine's straight-faced account continued, "Sara" ran up his finger...
Yesterday, a large, swarthy man was taking a crate of rolls into the famed Adams House special kitchen. As he started down the steps, a couple of the rolls fell off, but this hardly deterred the delivery man. Stopping he scraped the few rolls together from the pavement, carefully shook the dust off them, tenderly replaced them in the crate and continued...
...weeks ago correspondents saw it being loaded on a truck for shipment to the coast, packed in a crate that cost the Leftist Government 7,000 pesetas. ¶ Bombed and destroyed by Rebel planes was the Duke of Alba's gigantic Liria Palace, but it had already been seized as a museum, its paintings shipped to the coast. In Valencia last week paintings of the Duke of Alba, which the general public has never had a chance to see, were put on public exhibition...