Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LeBlanc got a barrel and a batch of supplies, stirred his mixture up with a paddle, added 12% ethyl alcohol as a preservative, ladled out his first brew with a coffee cup. "I took the first 14 bottles," he says solemnly, "and I was first-rate...
First the House fastened its teeth to the $29 billion omnibus appropriation bill. The more the House looked at the thing, the bigger the bill had grown-an additional $385 million for national defense, millions for creeks, dams and other sordid items of pork-barrel politics. It had become just too much to digest; besides, members had been getting letters from constituents demanding an end to reckless spending. With more courage than it had shown all year, the House put its jaws to work...
Last week a crew of workmen in downtown Rawlins dug up an old whisky barrel containing human bones. Whose were they? Somebody remembered that Dr. Lillian Heath, the girl who had received the top of Big Nose's skull, was still alive and still had her memento. It took only a few minutes to prove that the whisky barrel contained the bandit's remains: the lower section of the skull fitted the memento perfectly. The discoverers of Big Nose George's bones proudly offered them to the Carbon County museum...
When Multimillionaire Southwest Oilman William H. McFadden told his agents to hire the best guides available, they lost no time signing up bearded, barrel-chested, Bible-reading Ben Lilly, 64, the most indefatigable hunter of bears and mountain lions in the West. With four mule-drawn wagons and a small army of dogs, horses, pack mules, cooks and a photographer, McFadden and a party of his friends started north. Hunter Ben Lilly's chief mission: "To get McFadden a chance at a grizzly bear...
...hands toss it over his shoulder. At 44, and holding a brick in each hand, so the story goes, he completed three consecutive standing broad jumps totaling 36 feet. (U.S. standing broad-jump record, without bricks: 11 ft. 4⅞ in.) At 50, he could stand in an empty barrel and jump out without touching...