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Within the Law. In Tulsa, a man who was bothered by drunks under his bedroom window got in touch with police, conscientiously inquired about his rights, won official support of his plan, thereupon took a bucket of water to the window and poured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...been hunched grotesquely in their bucket seats. Now they rose quickly, hooked up their release lines. Each man bulged with 100 pounds of gear-tommy gun, pistol, grenades, rations, cigarets, medical equipment, knife-bayonet. Over the side they could see the flat, rocky terrain. Inside the island of Sicily there were islands of fire-the fierce circles of flame left by Allied aerial barrages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: How the Invasion Began | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...chemical kit, size of a cake of soap, weighs less than half a pound, will treat enough salt water to make two quarts of drinkable water - enough to last a careful man a week. The chemicals (secret) are simply mixed with sea water in any available container - a bucket, a boot or a helmet. When the muddy material settles, the clear liquid is treated with a second chemical swished around in a cloth like a tea bag, poured off, drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Drop to Drink | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...months. Forthwith one of the disciples would be dispatched with a warning-and a promise that Paka-Jake would intercede with the gods if the neighbor paid Paka-Jake a couple of thousand bolivianos (about $40). Sometimes he paid and sometimes not. If not, the neighbor kicked the bucket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Last of the Paka-Jakes | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...project is admittedly merely an experiment, and only a drop in the bucket in the way of settling the trouble. Nevertheless, although still in embryo form, the PBH Housing Office feels that its experiment will prove successful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE BUYS HOME TO HOLD TRAINEES | 3/12/1943 | See Source »

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