Word: crates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officers gave chase to a car, ran it to earth near Scotch Town in County Tyrone. They seized 1,000 powder puffs, 3,245 hair nets, 900 combs, 63 dozen handkerchiefs, hundreds of bottles of perfume. Other booty: lipsticks, nail files, cigaret lighters, 30,000 clothes pegs, onions, a crate of chocolates smuggled over the border in a lorry loaded with chicken crates...
...distance from the camera. A built-in scene recorder would eliminate the slovenly "slating" process-photographing the number of each scene, whacking two boards together to mark the end and beginning of the sound track. It would operate as quietly as a snowy night. Gone would be the cumbersome, crate-like "blimp" which covers the camera to keep its purring from drowning out actors' voices. The first version was tried on Shirley Temple from time to time, then hauled back for alterations and improve ments. Last Spring it did the complete photographic job on Shirley's Young People...
...deck, and ceased to think. His great red eyes looked through me at I know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner of her cage, with staring...
...that requires 145,000 seasonal workers in one month. Relatively few are the wandering Joads hired from the highway: to ship its 24,000 carloads of lettuce. Salinas pays some $78,000 in wages for car-loaders, $73,500 to the lidders who clamp lids on some 7,000.000 crates, $36,000 to the men who ice the refrigerator cars, from 60? to 80? an hour for packers, trimmers, ice men, truckers, paper folders, crate icers, crate liners, labelers...