Word: cribs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanical crib called "Night Nurse" was demonstrated in Manhattan by Dr. Sydney Norton Baruch, consulting engineer for the Air Force. Designed to help busy mothers, the motorized creche also will croon lullabies from a recording of the kind mother sings...
...tiny (pop. 150) Virgil is a two-story, stucco-covered brick building on a nameless blacktop road. It has 500 depositors, $707,000 in deposits and assets, and five directors, most of them retired farmers, all but one, members of the same family. It is the sort of crib that "Pretty Boy" Floyd could crack while sucking tomato seeds from between his teeth...
Corn in the Crib...
...crib of Nelson Roth, east of Pekin, was sealed today [with] Seal No. 0-48-5 of the Secretary of Agriculture of the U.S. . . . Sealed in this farm crib are 5,400 bushels of 1948 corn on which the Government has loaned $1.42 a bushel. If this corn had had to be sold when cribbed, it would have brought $1.25. Thus Mr. Roth is $918 ahead by sealing it. If the price goes above $1.42 before Sept. i, 1949, Farmer Roth can sell it and pay his loan. If the price remains below $1.42, Roth will simply deliver the corn...
...newborn baby seemed normal. But after two days it began to vomit, cried & tossed in its crib, was seized by convulsions and fits of holding its breath. These all suggested symptoms of a drug addict suddenly deprived of his drug...