With the development of China as the world's factory, its ports have become the biggest departure points for container ships, which carry finished goods like furniture and toys in standardized 40-foot-long steel boxes stacked high on their decks.
Amid boxes stacked high with Native American artifacts, rows of plastic containers filled with primate teeth, and a hodgepodge of microscopes, calipers, and research papers, a few shoe and cigar boxes hold the jigsaw pieces of a dozen canines: skulls, femurs, mandibles, and vertebrae.
There were dozens and dozens of donuts -- donuts in boxes stacked high on the counter as far as the eye could see.
On a mid-March afternoon in Room 101 of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building, Panera catering boxes stack high at the front of the room, a half-filled jug of OJ and green coffee cups scattered about; clear trash bags swell with boxes that previously housed sandwiches.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian Indian Casket, a shop on the outskirts of this modern and cosmopolitan city, sells coffins in all sizes: standard coffins clutter the entrance, child-size boxes are stacked high on the shelves and extra-large models, those for the tallest of the deceased, are stored in the back.
At several corner markets, boxes of water were stacked high outside.
WALKING THROUGH Blue Apron's distribution center in New Jersey, Salzberg and Papas weave through packing boxes stacked ceiling high to the command center, where a large screen shows the shipping schedules for packages destined for cities as far away as Chicago.
At a 200,000-square foot distribution warehouse across a parking lot, oversize boxes of generators are stacked high, awaiting shipment.
He walked us through his warehouse, down corridors stacked high with box after box of metal train parts and past giant leather-bound catalogues stuffed with handwritten notes.
Close to 100 stores have television sets on display on the sidewalks, where multicolored boxes from Korean manufacturers are stacked high.
("I'm going to swing with you" was what National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. told him during a quick phone call at the time. It was, says Lowry, "terrifying"). When I met Lowry in New York, where National Review is based, it was the day before the magazine was due to move from Murray Hill to Midtown, and the office was stacked high with boxes.
