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...trouble, said the educators, was that the War Assets Administration put all its books in standard size packing cases. If 335 copies of Shoop & Tuve's Mechanical Engineering Practice filled a crate, and a school wanted only 100 it had to take all 335 or none. Result: most schools were taking none...
...crop was more than enough to meet demand. So last week it removed citrus ceilings until Jan. 13. The effect was like jabbing a grapefruit: instantly citrus prices squirted skyhigh all over the U.S. Example: in Seattle, lemons went up within two hours from the ceiling of $5.76 a crate to $9.50. Grapefruit went up $1.25 a crate. Oranges jumped from $4.63 to $7.50 a crate...
Fire Sale. In Indianapolis, Clarence Fetzer bought a 49? packing crate at a surplus-property sale, found an incendiary bomb inside...
...Most Mexican merchants buy by the box and crate, as against the Sears trainload, and sell at the highest possible markups...
LeRoy's eyes popped and his temperature rose when he saw what was remaining aboard the plane. It was a huge crate occupying three-seats-worth of space in the transport. In it was a big (115 lbs.), tawny dog. On the crate, sure enough, was a No. 1 priority sticker. The crate also bore a label signifying that the beast with-in was the property of Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, the son of the President...