Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Lend-Leasers-to-Africa made a big point of the acknowledged fact that the shipments now under way or contemplated are only a drop in the bucket compared to total U.S. supplies. But in Manhattan the retail trade was buzzing with known purchases of 150,000 pairs of $4 & $5 men's and women's shoes and rumored purchases of 3,000,000 yards of rayon. In terms of current and threatened civilian shortages in the U.S., such sudden subtractions from the market are not a drop in the bucket-if for no other reason...
Remedies. There was no mistaking the urgency in Washington, but the remedies applied to date have been inadequate. Month ago, WPA upped its Puerto Rican quota from 18,000 to 25,000. But this was just a drop in the bucket: unemployment has risen to 322,000, almost half the island's employables. The war Shipping Administration's promise of 30,000 tons of shipping space a month was coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural...
...first the correspondents lived in foxholes. When the marines had the situation in hand, the correspondents got a five-bunk tent ("The Press Club") with a luxurious wood floor and a water-bucket shower bath...
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...