Word: crates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...begin with, the broiler's raiser is often told to what wholesaler he may sell. The truck and the very crate in which the broiler rides to town may be under criminal control. The food the broiler gets is sold by racketeers, and in the middle of the day or night he may be surprised to find his crate broken open, himself dumped out to squawk and flap in brief freedom until a predatory child or housewife captures him from his rightful owners...
...inspect her home after March 4. Mrs. Hoover received her in the Green Room. From there they went on a complete tour of the White House from attic to basement. Mrs. Hoover pointed out the furniture that was private property. In the cellar they saw expert Army packers crating up things for shipment to Palo Alto aboard the naval transport Henderson from Norfolk. Each crate bore big black letters: "Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Stanford University. In care Twelfth Naval District." Mrs. Roosevelt fingered the curtains, made mental notes of replacements and rearrangements. Certainly, she would bring with her some...
...most newsworthy trip of his career: a triumphant flying return to Alaska. He had flown across the country, taking with him Pianist Harrison Potter and Soprano Ruby Mercer, both of whom have been associated with him in Chautauqua, and as publicity man his Princeton friend Harvey Phillips. They would crate the plane, sail up from Seattle to Seward, Alaska, then fly to Fairbanks for the first concert on Sept. 17. There would be caribou and moose hunting, mountain-climbing, sight seeing, then concerts in Seward, Juneau, Seattle, possibly in Vancouver, Victoria and elsewhere. Because Bob Crawford was once a surveyor...
...such a happy state of mind. Before they left, Margy had quarreled with her boy Harry because he kissed her, Wayne with his girl Eleanor because she would not kiss him. But the only really unhappy one is Blue Boy, the Hampshire boar, who grunts in his crate at every bump. Blue Boy is going to the Fair, is going to win the Sweepstake prize. This truck ride bothers him, just the same, for as the hired man said, "No hawg is ever pleased...
Henry Ford made the first automobile which could go a mile-a-minute. Its name was 999. It had spindling wire wheels, an exposed engine, a radiator which looked like part of an egg crate and perpendicular steering gear, like a truck. To get it started, the manifold had to be warmed with a blow torch. The November day in 1902 when 999 made its stupendous record at Grosse Pointe, Mich., the young man who drove it sat on a high open seat wearing a heavy double-breasted coat. His face, protected by goggles and deprived, by a windmask...