Word: locker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With barely a glance at the weekend customers milling about the corner butcher shop, Mrs. Stanley Coultas walked into the Halliburton Cold Storage Locker Plant in Des Moines, opened her personal food locker, took out a chunk of mutton, a package of green beans. That was all she needed : her husband is in the Army, she lives alone. But against the day when her soldier comes home on furlough the 350-lb. locker is packed with good things to eat - parts of two sheep, big pieces of beef and pork, five fat chickens, some wall-eyed pike, a panful...
Hunters & Farmers. Thus last week a unique and thriving industry was helping some 1,250,000 U.S. families through the present food-crisis. The industry: frozen-food lockers. Founded by hunters in World War I, perfected and expanded by farmers in the late '30s, the food-locker business is now operating at record levels. Scattered through 46 states are 4,600 locker plants (1938 total: 1,269), with some 300 private lockers apiece. Many earn 30 to 100% annual profit on their investment. Business is so good that plants have waiting lists of 10 to 500 customers; new plants...
...boys and girls, aged 11 to 19, drawn from a four-mile radius. The school is set in a park off a quiet country lane-a century-old, red brick manse flanked by a modern wing containing five science laboratories, a domestic science kitchen, a large gymnasium with locker rooms and showers. Near by is a twelve-acre playing field...
...some of the bags were delivered to the America First Committee headquarters, others to the offices of isolationist Republican Congressman "Ham" Fish. When he phoned Fish's office and got a flat denial that any of the mailbags were there, Stokes wangled his way into Fish's locker room, found the bags...
...Engineers didn't open up their offense until midway in the final period, with the score 11 to 0 and the first Chase line, reclining in the locker room. Led by Captain Fred Kaneb, as a good a player as the rink saw all evening, the Techmen racked up four consecutive tallies on quick-opening plays, and goalie Gus Summers had no chance against the onslaught...