Word: crates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Young Archibald Fairley of Dundee, who found stunned upon the ground and nursed back to health a pigeon belonging to King Edward, received as a reward from His Majesty two pigeons which arrived in a crate lettered: "LIVE BIRDS -URGENT-FROM HIS MAJESTY THE KING." ¶A horse of exceptional gentleness named Cherry Grove was discovered in the stable of the Salford mounted police and bought for $750 to become the "charger" which will bear His Majesty through the streets of London on State occasions. Cherry Grove was first elaborately tested in the stableyard of the Metropolitan Police...
...folks, I'd be afraid way out here in the country." Heads turned. A voice came back: "I understand they hunt deer up here between Rows J and K." The answer was cut short by a hammering sound, hollow and staccato, like a hatchet assaulting an orange crate: The 21st Republican National Convention was gaveled to order...
...manufacturing biologist in whose plant he went to work in 1911. In 1928 he bought a trailer to take his five children camping. It was supposed to unfold into a tent in ten minutes, actually took hours. Exasperated, Biologist Sherman built a trailer which looked like an egg-crate but worked. His family still found it impractical for sleeping, however, because they encountered what U. S. trailermen now call "Trailer Tappers." "So many curious people banged on my trailer to investigate," says Trailerman Sherman, "that I began to see that trailer manufacture might be a profitable pursuit...
Officials at University Hall had no sooner commenced the day's routine yesterday morning than they were pleasantly surprised by the arrival of a truck driver carrying a large crate of soft drinks. Upon investigation it was learned that this unexpected donation had been sent by Simoneau in return for favors previously conferred...
Beside the company's railroad spur stood a mammoth flat-topped trailer. Flat on the trailer lay a circular crate, nearly 18 ft. across, made of reinforced sheet steel. Inside, protected by close-packed felt and rubber, was the biggest and costliest piece of glass in the world - the 200-in. telescope mirror destined for California Institute of Technology, 3,000 miles away. For nearly a year, since it was formed of molten pyrex borosilicate glass, the great disk had cooled slowly in its annealing oven. In the testing plant it had been pronounced...