Word: crates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another plan was for the erecton of a cage garage. This would resemble a chicken crate, have no solid walls, and be cheap to build. Gilbert Greenwood, representing the Church Street Garage, said that he thought it was "unfair for the city to go into competition with the garages already in the Square...
Gradually, the planes improved. Ford's famed Tri-Motor appeared with a cabin with room for 16. In 1929 came the crate-like, twin-engine Curtiss Condor, a 21-place goliath, followed in a few years by Douglas' famed...
...dock a Sūreté officer pointed to a large crate, ordered dockers to break it open. Inside the crate was an old grey Ford automobile. Inside the Ford, smiling and blinking away tears caused by the sunlight, sat an emaciated man with a long beard...
...Palizzi's sailors told what they knew. The crate had been nailed up in Sofia 40 days earlier. It had been taken by train to Burgas, where it had lain on the dock for many days. Said one sailor "The man inside was lucky, for usually such crates are opened by the Burgas customs." The crate had been stowed away in the hold of the Palizzi. There it had remained as the little ship steamed through the Bosporus to Istanbul, Smyrna and Genoa where arrangements had been made to fumigate the hold. Said a sailor later...
Europe in 1951 was a place where people regarded it as normal that the police gave a respectful welcome to a man who had traveled 40 days in a crate...