Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces are using high-octane gasoline in Europe at double the anticipated rate. To keep its combat planes flying at peak efficiency, the Navy has had to shuttle its high-octane gas around like a bucket brigade at a fire...
...Under the Smith-Connally law, which forbids union contributions to final election campaigns, but not to primaries, P.A.C. paid money directly to its favorites' primary campaigns. To date, it has spent $300,000 (mostly for salaries and printing), which it considers a mere drop in the bucket. In its treasury is another $400,000 contributed by powerful C.I.O. unions...
...Sacramento's banks were too low to use Crowe's cross-canyon cable device. So he built the world's tallest headtower (465 ft.), and poured every 16-ton bucket of concrete from cables in a semicircle above...
...Attorney General James W. Austin finally got a confession from four of Teacher Pauline Rebel's pupils. Their story: Teacher Rebel is nearsighted, even with her glasses. Her pupils stuck lighted matches in the bookcase and behind the window shades to simulate spontaneous combustion. They juggled the coal bucket with long pointers, threw lumps of coal around the room. Their sleight of hand was so skillful that it fooled not only the teacher but suggestible parents, one of whom swore that coals jumped out of his hand...
...State Fire Marshal Charles Schwartz organized a full-dress investigation. Submitted to lie-detector tests, Teacher Rebel and her pupils got a clean bill of truth-telling health. Chemists in the state colleges closely analyzed the coal. They could find nothing out of the way. The coal, the bucket and the dictionary were shipped to the FBI in Washington. The citizens of Richardton decided that the schoolhouse was "bewitched." Blonde Mrs. Rebel thought an anonymous letter-writer who had threatened her life might have had something to do with...