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  • In the first advertisement prepared by Hill & Knowlton, the industry argued that one would have to eat a box-car load of Alar-treated apples every day to be harmed.

    Wendy Gordon: The True Alar Story III Wendy Gordon 2011

  • Well, I took my handful of copy paper down to the railroad yards (for local color), dangled my legs from a side-door Pullman, which is another name for a box-car, and ran off the stuff.

    Local Color 2010

  • Scarcely had the two boys dropped from the side-door of the box-car, and before they had made a score of steps along the narrow way between the train and the abyss, than the train began to move.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • In the first advertisement prepared by Hill & Knowlton, the industry argued that one would have to eat a box-car load of Alar-treated apples every day to be harmed.

    Wendy Gordon: The True Alar Story III Wendy Gordon 2011

  • In the first advertisement prepared by Hill & Knowlton, the industry argued that one would have to eat a box-car load of Alar-treated apples every day to be harmed.

    Wendy Gordon: The True Alar Story III Wendy Gordon 2011

  • Every flat-car, box-car, coach, asthmatic switch engine, and even hand-car that mob of Spiggoties had shoved off the dock into sixty feet of water on top of the

    THE HUSSY 2010

  • He pulled open the side-door of an empty box-car and awkwardly and laboriously climbed in.

    THE APOSTATE 2010

  • He pulled open the side-door of an empty box-car and awkwardly and laboriously climbed in.

    THE APOSTATE: written by Jack London 2010

  • Two days later, on a trestle, the lads were fired out of an empty box-car by a brake-man who should have known better.

    CHAPTER V 2010

  • In the first advertisement prepared by Hill & Knowlton, the industry argued that one would have to eat a box-car load of Alar-treated apples every day to be harmed.

    Wendy Gordon: The True Alar Story III Wendy Gordon 2011

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