Word: crates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Winston-Salem receive 9 cents for each special; the contest made them each almost $500 richer. In the Reynolds Building 122 employes on day and night shifts sorted and stapled the mail. Within a few days they stopped being surprised at such oddities as a letter in a crate so it would attract attention, letters in little known foreign languages, answers sent in on phonograph records, sometimes set to music, answers in fancy leather volumes, others engraved on metal, some cast in plaster, one wrapped around a baby's shoe. Many contestants sent in pictures of themselves, many appealed...
...best of them were among 2,513 entries for the Westminster Kennel Club show. It was, as always, an event important for its social as well as its sporting aspects; along the street outside the Garden were parked expensive foreign cars which had been used, with a crate strapped on the trunk rack, for dog transportation. Inside, in the carpeted rings, amid the overpowering stench of the disinfectants that are used to prevent the epidemics of distemper that so often get started at shows, famed and valuable dogs paraded, were judged, awarded, and clapped...
...Youthful Mrs. Jessie Maud Keith-Miller, famed for her 1927 co-flight from England to Australia, wanted to "put myself over as a commercial pilot" by showing she could fly a "rotten" plane as well as a good one. In a rebuilt Eaglerock Bullet which she called an "unairworthy crate rescued from the junkpile," devoid even of a turn-&- bank indicator, she flew solo last fortnight from Pittsburgh to Havana. Despite a 30-m.p.h. wind, despite her own admitted fright and premonition of failure, she took off last week from Havana to return across the Gulf. She never reached Miami...
Fordyce Drop Forge & Tool Factory. His first appearaace is as a common workman-though later he becomes general manager-going to his job with his dinner pail. The dinner pail is the size of an automobile crate and it contains a hogshead of coffee. From this point on the audience is relieved of all sense of proportion and reason...
...current report of the Field Museum, Chicago, Karl P. Schmidt, assistant curator of reptiles, announced that he had received a rare Texas plated lizard, which he had long wanted. Found in a crate of lettuce by a grocer of Deerfield, Ill., it had come as a stowaway from southern Texas...