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 During World War II, The Met executed one of the most complex art evacuations in American history—transporting thousands of irreplaceable artworks out of New York City for safekeeping.

Read about this largely forgotten part of the Museum's wartime history in our latest #Perspectives article.

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Ninety Truckloads of Art: Safeguarding The Met Collection During World War II

Cross-Dock operations were first pioneered in the US trucking industry in the 1930s, and have been in continuous use in LTL (less than truckload) operations ever since. The US Military began utilizing cross-dock operations in the 1950s. Wal-Mart began utilizing cross-docking in the retail sector in the late 1980s.

teaser

noun [ C ]

   MARKETING, COMMERCE

UK 

 /ˈtiːzər/ US 

 

→  teaser ad

 

a product sold at a very low price to encourage people to try it. Its price usually goes up later:

The government should ban unfair teasers that encourage people to make risky investments.

(Cambridge ビジネス英語辞典 からの teaser の定義 © Cambridge University Press)

teaserの例

teaser

It is a teaser of a problem.

-load

suffix

UK 

 / -ləʊd/ US 

 / -loʊd/

 

all the people or goods in the stated type of vehicle or container:

a coachload of football fans

Busloads of tourists pour into this place in the summer.

Truckloads of food and medical supplies arrived in the refugee camp.

Shipload definition is - as much or as many as will fill or load a ship.