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Despite the ARP's plea for Volunteer Firemen, Cambridge's quota to date is a mere drop in the bucket. The Cambridge fire department has lost valuable men to the armed forces and the assistance of Volunteers will be a necessity if a large five breaks loose. Yet for the proposed squad of a thousand Volunteers, only a hundred have showed...
...wealthy Shanghai financier appeared in striped morning trousers and coat and old-fashioned buttoned shoes. Another, attired in full evening dress, was seen hauling a garbage bucket in the Indian quarters. A wealthy old stockholder of the Hong Kong Bank came daily for a bucket of hot water dressed in nothing but a suit of long woolen underwear...
...thousand dollars a week looks large in the absolute, but it breaks down to only a quarter per man. From one point of view, the Harvard contribution may be only a drop in the bucket; from another, it is the finger in the dike...
...dump-it-in-a-bucket method has not been approved by OCD for civilian defense workers. Reason: OCD thinks that U.S. citizens, confronted with a real air raid, might not have the necessary coolness for such an aggressive technique...
...Chungking Ferry carries everything: bombs, guns, ammo, medical supplies, even gasoline for the thin stores of China, even though the quantity carried is only a drop in the bucket. Its planes fly unarmed, crawl into clouds or hedgehop through the valleys when the Jap jumps them up, hoping the A.V.G. will come out to rescue them. When the A.V.G. is busy elsewhere, they manage to get through anyhow...