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French ewer, 1795, hard-paste porcelain, height: 25.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) In American English, a pitcher is a container with a spout used for storing and pouring liquids.
It runs from FM 2004 in La Marque to Loop 197 in Texas City. The road is known locally as Texas Avenue. FM 1765 was designated on May 23, 1951, from SH 6 west of Hitchcock north and east to the then-old route of US 75 (now SH 3). On December 17, 1952, a 1.7-mile (2.7 km) section from SH 6 to FM 2004 was transferred to FM 2004.
In October 2009, Textainer acquired 31,000 containers (53,000 TEU) of Amphibious Container Leasing Ltd, (Amficon), mostly speciality containers. [6] In May 2011, the firm acquired about 171,000 TEU of containers and related lease rights and working capital ($174 million) that it has been managing for Buss Global since 2006.
There are competing theories for the origin of the name "Toby Jug". [4] Although it has been suggested that the pot is named after Sir Toby Belch in Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, the most widely accepted theory is that the original was a Yorkshireman, Henry Elwes, 'famous for drinking 2,000 gallons of strong stingo beer from his silver ...
Under Texas Alcohol Code section 109.35, a municipality can prohibit the possession of an open container in central business districts if there’s a risk to the health or safety of its citizens.
Container Corporation of America (CCA) was founded in 1926 and manufactured corrugated boxes. [1] In 1968 CCA merged with Montgomery Ward & Company, Inc. , becoming MARCOR. MARCOR maintained separate management for the operations of each company, but had a joint board of directors .
It opened its first location out of Texas in 1991 in Atlanta, Georgia, [5] its first NY store in 2000, [6] and its first LA store in 2006. [7] In 1999, The Container Store bought one of its main suppliers, Elfa International, a Swedish corporation that specialized in shelving and storage units. [8]
A Russian View of Philadelphia, 1795–96: From the Journal of Lieutenant Iurii Lisianskii. Pennsylvania History, Vol. 65, No. 1, Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Winter 1998), pp. 62–86. Albrecht Koschnik.