Word: crates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gradually the mountains of South America, where the chinchilla lived, were swept almost clean, and the fur fell from fash ion. In 1923, an Anaconda mining engineer named Mathias Chapman captured eleven of the remaining wild chinchillas, brought them from the Andes to Southern California in an ice-cooled crate. He started breeding them and founded the domestic chinchilla industry. From his original eleven animals sprang virtually all the estimated 250,000 chinchillas in the U.S. today...
Unable to get a cow, Martin J. Hertz 2L yesterday tried to cash a check written on the side of a wooden grocery crate at the Harvard Trust Company...
...ground^ he is anything but a swashbuckler. Back home in Lubbock, Texas, where he has a wife and two children, Davis likes to putter in the kitchen (specialties: steak and pot roasts). The seventh of nine children, Davis went up for a $2.50 ride in a barnstormer's crate when he was 13. From then on, he knew what his life's work was going to be. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1942, flew 266 missions in propeller-driven P-475 and P-515 from Philippine bases, downed seven Japanese planes...
...sorted through the work of 6,248 contemporary painters, and finally culled 307 canvases for display (TIME, Dec. 11, 1950). This time it was the sculptors' turn. Encouraged by $8,500 worth of prizes, 1,066 of them submitted photographs of their work, and 101 drew bids to crate and ship at the Metropolitan's expense. Last week the museum invited the public in to see "American Sculpture...
When the four friends surveyed their finished craft, they saw a crate whose fuselage had only three seats, whose engine was Polish, whose tail wheel came from a Nazi Messerschmitt, whose carburetors and exhaust stacks were American. A split rudder panel had been patched with strips of an old leather jacket...