Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...just three years short of half a century since he had made his first play in the market-a $3.12 profit on Burlington Railroad common. He was 15 then, a board boy in Boston's Paine, Webber & Co. They told him to stay out of the bucket shops or quit his job. He quit. A towheaded greenhorn from West Acton, Mass., son of a poor Yankee farmer, he began beating the bucket shops at their own game until they refused to take his business. With $2,500 in his pocket, 21 years behind him, he lit out for Wall...
...Hollywood fire chief. (He does teach first aid to many faculty members and university employees in evening classes.) Reminiscing about the day in 1908 when Chelsea burnt down or showing his souvenirs from the time when every Cambridge householder was required to possess one ladder and two leather buckets for the bucket brigade, Chief Gutheim points out that in the 41 years of fire fighting which he can remember Cambridge has always been rated A-1 by the underwriters. This has been accomplished "despite what we have to work with"; namely, an almost brand new $275,000 plant including even...
...actually began to fall did firemen take cover, not in air-raid shelters but simply by jumping for the nearest doorway or partial shelter. One elderly woman, so paralyzed by fear that she was unable to go to a shelter, found herself watching the firemen, began brewing them a bucket...
When they get to Española (Haiti) Don Narciso sees what just six years of white rule can do: Christianized Indians who die rather than work and who, through mere imprisonment, die in a few days "like fish in a bucket." Hardly has Don Narciso got his shore legs when he witnesses the burning alive of sixteen here tics; he sees next what happens to 20,000 Indians in spontaneous desperate rebellion. Stark naked, all of them, men, women and children, they advance in a brown wave, using stones and sharpened sticks, to dissolve into panic before the first...
...Senate Finance Committee) sold lukewarm Franklin Roosevelt on this departure from New Deal practice, then wrote the President's ideas into "a bill to provide for the expenses of national preparedness. . . ." Sure to pass, the bill was no less sure to be a mere drop in the enormous bucket of Defense...