Word: crates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan apartment early one morning last week, Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy awoke with a start. As he flipped a bedside switch, soft indirect light spread over walls made of egg-crate fiber and over a group of improbable furnishings− a Tahitian drum, Congo ceremonial sword, Chinese helmet, Moroccan fly-switch, Senegalese war hatchet and grotesque Zulu masks. Loewy, who gets some of his best ideas in bed (and no nightmares from the masks), reached for the ever-present memo pad beside his pillow and scribbled a cryptic note: Why not a suction cap for shaving-cream tubes...
...billion, 10% above 1947's Himalayan peak. U.S. builders started 1,250,000 houses, 45% more than in any other year. Automakers, working at high speed, brought out a glittering parade of radically changed postwar models-all square, squat and as alike in appearance as cans in a crate. Out rolled more than 5,200,000 cars and trucks, about 8% more than 1947. The textile industry spun out 13,621 billion yards of cloth, enough to reach 311 times around the earth. Out of the whirring factories came 540 million pairs of nylons (10 pairs for every...
...airstrip, our escorts fidgeted nervously and kept glancing at the Communist-held hills as darkness settled down. As we winged back through the night, the wind from the open hatch spun the dust on the floor in a whirlpool, picked up a small cardboard tag torn off a shipping crate. The tag told the poignant story of the rapidity of China's retreat: It said: "To Mukden...
California citrus growers were plagued by an opposite turn of nature. The Wall Street Journal reported that for the fourth successive year, Valencia oranges had mysteriously grown smaller. It took an average of 277 of them to fill a crate this year, as compared with 276 in 1947, 264 in 1946, 254 in 1945, 220 before that. The University of California's citrus experiment station admitted that it had no clues. One desperate expert talked darkly of "the effects of sunspots...
...children attend Sunday School," he said enthusiastically, sitting on the crate that he uses for a chair and warming his slender hands over a tiny charcoal brazier. "In the spring I hope to start a day school. I hope also ... to make plans to improve their condition. It is too difficult to change their occupation at once, for they are too poor...