Word: crates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody was sure of Bed Check Charlie's ancestry. Some Air Force officers thought he might be a Russian-built PO2 single-engined training biplane. To G.I.s the canvas-covered,wire-strutted plane looked like a cross between a box kite and an orange crate. They had named him Bed Check in the first place because at Pyongyang last fall, they used to stay awake nights until he came buzzing over from behind the enemy lines, dropped a bomb, a sack of bolts or nails, or maybe fired a few shots from a pistol and then headed for home...
...week's end Captain Richard M. Heyman, flying a B-26 Invader near Seoul, dropped down to investigate a suspicious blip picked up by radar. At 500 ft., he sighted an enemy plane that looked in the moonlight as though it might be Bed Check Charlie's crate. Captain Heyman fired a single burst from his .50-cahber guns, and the plane flew apart in midair. Air Force officers were pretty sure they had finished off Bed Check, but refused to say so definitely, suggested that other Bed Checks might turn up. If that happened, one G.I. from...
Thomas Wolfe was only 37 when he died, but there had been nothing small-scale or quiet about the life he left behind. His 6 ft. 5½, 240 Ib. frame required massive feedings and guzzlings, and his stormy, undisciplined manuscripts were big enough to fill a crate. A natural wanderer, he was always on the prowl, and the area that fascinated him most was his own U.S.A...
When lettuce prices tumbled from $6 to $2.25 a crate last month, the growers of California's Salinas Valley, the "Salad Bowl of America," started plowing under half their big crop. For a few days, the plan worked fine. As lettuce became scarcer, prices stabilized. But then the Justice Department started an antitrust suit against the growers. Last week the trustbusters got a court injunction stopping the growers from destroying lettuce...
Barreca moved into one end of a dusty Toronto warehouse, scrounged an orange crate to sit on and went to work with a skimpy capital allotment...