Word: packs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unprosperous artist, young Lawrence Saint worked in a wallpaper store in Pittsburgh's East End as "salesman, janitor and general pack-horse," was made color conscious by his merchandise. Against his father's advice, Lawrence Saint apprenticed himself to a stained glass artist, scrimped and saved to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. At this time a deep religious experience led him to join the Presbyterian Church, worry about the propriety of painting nude females. Ribald fellow students tied him up, carried him by force to a model's stand where an undraped woman...
Cheering Britons, pack-jammed as far as the eye could see, greeted Emperor Haile Selassie when he arrived in London praising the King and saying he was sure he would get justice (TIME, June 15). Last week special London police squads were assigned to handle expected crowds at His Majesty's departure. During the month, however, British public opinion had changed so completely that scarcely 50 people were on hand to wave good-by to the Emperor's first-class Pullman. He took second-class on reaching the Continent and as his Geneva-bound train halted at Paris...
Arriving in Little Rock at 5:30 p. m., the President was motored directly to its unfinished Centennial Stadium, found it pack-jammed with 25,000 people. Facing microphones which carried his voice over the same nationwide hookups which were to broadcast the words of Herbert Hoover at Cleveland an hour later, Franklin Roosevelt delivered the first of a series of set speeches using the events of long-dead history as parables on current politics...
Texas' Governor James V. Allred promptly accepted the challenge in Dallas but delegated the spitting to expert Expectorator Leonard Pack, chief of the Centennial Police. No chewer himself, the Texas Governor refused to compete because: "They say it takes time to achieve accuracy and poise...
...poverty-stricken farmers in all 48 States, this boom meant undreamed of profits. A barrel of potatoes costs about $2 to grow, another 75?^ to dig, pack, ship. Prices were so low on the Eastern Shore last year that desperate farmers hijacked and destroyed truckloads of other growers' potatoes going to market. In Maine, No. 1 U. S. potato State, where a 165-lb. barrel last year sold at the warehouse for as little as 10?, some 10,000 carloads were dumped into swamps. This was the situation that led Congress to pass the famed Warren Potato Control...