Word: crates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years burly Joe Curran played with Communists in the National Maritime Union, and was mighty glad to get their support. For years they used simple-minded Joe, and Joe toed the party line. Now Joe has to admit the Commies had him in a crate...
...trouble, said the educators, was that the War Assets Administration put all its books in standard size packing cases. If 335 copies of Shoop & Tuve's Mechanical Engineering Practice filled a crate, and a school wanted only 100 it had to take all 335 or none. Result: most schools were taking none...
...crop was more than enough to meet demand. So last week it removed citrus ceilings until Jan. 13. The effect was like jabbing a grapefruit: instantly citrus prices squirted skyhigh all over the U.S. Example: in Seattle, lemons went up within two hours from the ceiling of $5.76 a crate to $9.50. Grapefruit went up $1.25 a crate. Oranges jumped from $4.63 to $7.50 a crate...
Fire Sale. In Indianapolis, Clarence Fetzer bought a 49? packing crate at a surplus-property sale, found an incendiary bomb inside...
...Most Mexican merchants buy by the box and crate, as against the Sears trainload, and sell at the highest possible markups...