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...hiked up old ones. Faced with wage raises for public employees and increased operating costs, 15 states had passed cigaret tax laws; nine had raised taxes on liquor; four had started sales taxes. Taxpayers, long used to this kind of pasture milking, made no attempt to kick over the bucket. But there was a great deal of angry tail-switching...
...bucket of hot lye solution to Mr. Johnson for the wonderful gangster indoctrination he has given American youth...
...Bucket Brigade. The House Appropriations Committee reported out its ninth bill covering 33 independent Government offices. The report sizzled. "Almost nowhere in the Government is there any semblance of cost accounting. . . . Billions of dollars have been spent which can never be properly accounted for. . . ." The committee recommended giving the 33 offices a total of $8,168 million-$330 million less than they had asked...
...July 31. Instead they would recess until next January, with the provision that Congress could be recalled by either the majority or minority leadership. Republicans felt they could not leave the country in sole charge of Harry Truman. They wanted to be ready to rush up like a bucket brigade any time next fall if fire broke...
...thousands of London homes, and once again Londoners were queuing up on the streets, this time with jugs and cans, to wait for a cooling ration from city water carts and hydrants. In many a London kitchen, where the milk is kept cool and sweet by standing in a bucket of wafer, housewives philosophically turned their curdling ration to pot cheese...