Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make a gesture, a feeble, finger-twiddling gesture toward economy, but at least a move. In a special message to Congress he suggested that $109,000,000 be sliced off the $995,000,000 WPA appropriation for the 1941-42 fiscal year. This was a drop in the bucket, but economizers thought $109,000,000 better than nothing...
...signed a currency stabilization agreement with the Chinese, advancing $50,000,000 to support Chinese currency. When Japan joined the Axis last year, the U.S. countered with a $100,000,000 loan to China. But this will be a drop in the bucket compared to plans for China aid under the Lend-Lease...
Harvard's Lonnie Stowell and Ted McNitt were shut out in the unpredictable 50. and a red-hot Scott Scammell nipped Art Bosworth as well as Bill Drucker in the backstroke. On the other hand, Bob White also upset the dope bucket by getting an easy second in the breaststroke, only being beaten by about a foot for a first by Art McClure in 2:37.5. Max Kraus' third there was another big surprise...
...When milk streams frothily from udder to bucket, it contains much dissolved oxygen. In raw milk, bacteria then consume most of the oxygen. But pasteurization removes most of the bacteria, so the oxygen content of pasteurized milk remains high. Oxidation of the fat content may then cause papery, oily, metallic or tallowy flavors; worse, it may diminish the natural proportion of vitamin C. Obvious answer, proposed by scientists at Cornell University: take the air out of the milk. They announced development of vacuum equipment which de-aerates 1,500 quarts...
...smother them with the tin tops of garbage cans. But there are seldom enough covers for all the bombs, so everybody is now familiar with the second method, which is to smother them with sand and then spray them with a hand pump attached to a water bucket. A third fairly effective method for whiskey drinkers is to spray the bomb with a soda-water siphon. Fourth and most dangerous method, about to be demonstrated by the woman in the picture below, is to pick up the fin end of the bomb, whack it sharply on the ground and decapitate...