Word: crates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ignited grass in the surrounding field. Racing through the sewer the flame blasted the covers off 156 Weehawken manholes, causing residents to scurry to their cellars. Firemen were summoned to put out a blaze on an Erie R. R. freight loading platform, started by the burning grass. A chicken crate factory started burning down; two firefighters were overcome. A paper factory also caught fire. Match-thrower Moyer was expected...
...young, high-bred Holstein bull, en route from Pennsylvania to Porto Rico (object: paternity), arrived last week on the Staten Island shore of New York Harbor in a big strong crate on a motor truck. The truck went aboard the ferryboat Nassau. The motion of the ferry excited the bull. It hooked at the crate's slats, then hurled its 1,200 lbs. against the end boards, burst through, charged the truck driver and the ferry's brass-buttoned mate. All passengers and the mate fled to the top deck, leaving the bull snorting and plunging below. Came...
...with a dog's sharp reminiscence of the end of that three hour run; she might have been wondering whether the time had not come for her handler to bring her a platter of lean, raw meat; or she might have guessed, from the smell of the pine crate that was almost overpowering in her infinitely acute nostrils, that she was soon to make another trip to Grand Junction where, on March 5, she must defend her title in the National Championship Bird Dog Trials, against the pick of the best bird dogs in the U. S. The trials...
...train lumbered past. The driver put the bus in gear, started across the tracks. Those who were still looking out the windows had one short moment of agony. An express train shrieked out from behind the passenger cars, dove into the bus, splintered its thick body like a fruit crate. The wreckage stopped 160 yds. away. The driver and nine of the ten children were killed...