Word: crates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Missouri hens laid certain eggs months and months ago. The eggs went to a packer in Omaha, Neb. who assembled crate after crate, culling eggs cracked in shipment. Frugally he separated the yolks and whites of the culls, loaded the yolks into 30-lb. cans, sold them to bakeries throughout the country...
...which rushed the theatre. First fists flew. Then blackjacks. Policemen's nightsticks thudded in the dark. Growing momentarily, the crowd surged down the street to the Strand. Crash! Down came the advertising displays. Back & forth between the Strand and the Palace shuttled the mob. Someone had a crate of eggs. Others bombarded the police with hard cinders, soft, squashy fruit. Badgered policemen drew their pistols, spattered the pavement with bullets. Perhaps students, too, had pistols. One bullet ricocheted into the leg of Edward Nabors, 36, as he skirted the mob on his way home from the library. A blackjack...
Major Steffen was a South African who came from Luxemburg. With a crate of pigeons strapped to him he bailed out from an airplane over Luxemburg one black night early in 1918. His mission was to discover whether the Germans were concentrating troops in the Grand Duchy for the great March offensive. He landed in a field, badly shaken. Groping in the dark he hid his parachute in a hedge, trudged 20 miles to his father's house, arriving just before dawn. Two of his three pigeons subsequently reached British G.H.Q. The message they bore was, in effect, no German...
...Polish artist should be so prominently displayed in a U. S. collection supposedly owned entirely by the Whitney Museum of American Art. Last week, in London, Mrs. Juliana R. Force, the Whitney Museum's energetic director, thought it was so strange that she threatened to withdraw, crate and ship back to the U. S. the entire Whitney exhibit (101 pictures) unless the unauthorized Davies portrait was removed...
Only a few of the larger animals give Frank Buck occasional trouble. This picture shows him dancing uneasily around a cobra, escaped from its crate; herding wild elephants into a corral; scooping a man-eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other animals which appear in Wild Cargo are flying foxes, water buffalo, mouse-deer, gibbons, orangutans, tapirs. Most appealing are a white Rhesus monkey and a honey bear engaged in a calm, incompetent wrestling bout; most alarming, the python who slithers forlornly through Wild Cargo, strangling a black panther, frightening...