Article: Hawaiian Teas expand to West Coast.(Brief Article)

Article: Seeking out that skiffle sound ...
Leigh Reporter (Leigh, England);  July 23, 2008 ;     222 words ......Golborne High School are looking for a tea chest and a washboard. In the 1950s, skiffle groups used a modified wooden tea chest connected to strings to provide the...are seeking a traditional wooden tea chest and a washboard with a view to reviving...

Article: Metals for the fashion-conscious consumer.
The Magazine Antiques;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......your brother Major [George] Washington a Tea Chest, and in it Six Silver Spoons, and Strainer...a Dish of Tea. [1] Betty Washington's tea chest was probably not dissimilar to the handsome...at the tea table. Betty Washington's tea chest is symbolic of the expanding flow of...

Article: Sacks - an answer to dwindling forestry. (the tea industry looks at alternative shipping containers)
Tea & Coffee Trade Journal;  October 1, 1990 ;     700+ words ......timber resources, there would be a point in the future when the tea chest would simply become unavailable. In a period of accelerating...importing countries, although there are certainly exceptions, the tea chest is destroyed after emptying, a wastage of precious raw materials...

Article: Neglected dog dumped in tea chest.
Huntingdon Town Crier (St. Neots, England);  October 26, 2007 ;     221 words ......find the extremely emaciated Lurcher outside their exit gates at 7am. The two to three-year-old dog was found shut in a tiny tea chest. At first staff thought it was a puppy but on further inspection it was found to be a small lurcher. Charlotte, as she has...

Article: Crane, John
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military;      108 words ......Germantown , Brandywine (both 1777), and Monmouth (1778). During the Boston Tea Party, Crane was knocked unconscious when a tea chest fell on him. Believing him dead, his companions left him buried underneath a pile of wood shavings in a nearby carpenter's...

Article: Cherry Burton in the Doghouse.
Beverley Guardian (Driffield, England);  September 4, 2006 ;     167 words ...THE Doghouse Skiffle Group make a welcome return to Cherry Burton Village Hall next week. Armed with tea chest, washboard, guitar and singalong skiffle favourites old and new, this group are at home in front of any audience. They have entertained...

Article: Donegan, Lonnie
Contemporary Musicians;      700+ words ......undisputed king of skiffle — a jazz-tinged hybrid of American folk and blues. Performed with acoustic guitars, banjos, a tea chest or washtub bass, and a washboard for scrubbing out the backbeat, skiffle was crude, spirited music that began at American rent...

Article: 'Dog was so ill she could barely stand'.
Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England);  October 29, 2007 ;     197 words ......emaciated flea-bitten two to three-year-old lurcher had been left in what has been described as a terrible condition in the tea chest. Charlotte, as she has been named, was discovered yesterday and was so ill she could barely stand. Staff at the Wood Green...

Article: T.E.A. time.(Transportation Equity Act)(Brief Article)
Black Enterprise;  April 1, 1999 ;     538 words ......owners who sold outlets to minority entrepreneurs, they were faced with losing yet another lucrative business resource. In essence, TEA-21 is a $217.3 billion investment in America's infrastructure that could impact most communities in the country over the next...

Article: Stop giving us your rubbish, says charity shop.
Stamford Mercury & Citizen (Stamford, England);  May 11, 2007 ;     351 words ......from the front of the shop in St Paul's Street. And nearly all the so-called donations - which included half a sofa, a rusty tea chest and bin bags full of household waste - had to be thrown away. Susan said she and her colleagues had reached the end of their...

Article: Engines steam in for anniversary celebrations.
Malton & Pickering Mercury (Malton, England);  July 30, 2008 ;     285 words ......live music from skiffle band, Whistling Billy and the Heads of Steam, who will be playing railway songs on banjo, washboard, tea-chest bass and mouth organ. Trains will operate between Pickering and Whitby on Saturday and between Pickering and Grosmont on Sunday...

Article: Never so good for British tea drinkers: tea is often considered to be the most quintessential of British drinks and a great British tradition but remarkably most Brits know little about their favorite beverage and national drink.(British Tea)
Tea & Coffee Trade Journal;  October 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......when tea was an expensive commodity that the 'lady' of the house was in sole charge of the beverage, including keys to the 'tea chest.' She had complete control of the whole tea making process leading to the saying (still used to today) by persons pouring tea...

Article: Rowntree, Kenneth
A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art;      196 words ......1976–7, John Milner wrote that ‘He is as likely to work with a fret-saw and drill, or with stencil and pieces of tea-chest, as he is to squeeze out paint from a tube of oil colour'. He also experimented with abstraction, but landscape (including...

Article: RAF old boy ...return to base...over.
Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England);  October 18, 2006 ;     270 words ......days and because I'd learned joinery as a lad was given the job of carpenter/rigger. Early planes seemed to be made out of tea chest wood but by the time I joined they were pretty sturdy and the joints were good. To add support they had wire stays which were...