Word: packs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over 600 such slips pack the Committee's files, but one AVC member estimates that in one day, only 30 students enter the building in search of books and, of those, only eight or ten actually purchase texts...
...Joint Congressional Committee on Housing had padded from coast to coast, sniffing for the scent of a grey market in building materials. All over the country, Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, vice chairman of the pack, had picked up signs of one Isadore Ginsberg of New York City, who was plying a brisk and highly profitable trade in gypsum lath. McCarthy was outraged at Ginsberg's prices. (He was getting $52.50 per 1,000 sq. ft. for lath selling for about $40 in lumber yards.) Furthermore, McCarthy charged, Ginsberg moved fast enough to buy up large quantities...
...rookies agree that "at least we won't have to learn to carry a pack...
...Hordes pack the florist's shops, buying all conceivable sorts of Christmas decorations. Students were reported to be carrying away dozens of wreaths, with a smaller demand noted for table trees...
Also in progress in the laboratory in a study of animal instincts, with pack rats and hamsters, a Near East relative of the gopher, as chief subjects. Answers are being sought to such questions as why do rats form packs, why do they heard and transport miscellaneous small objects, and why do some animals build houses...