Word: bucket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wrong Bucket. Crops-after a slow start in many states-were wonderfully good again. U.S. farmers, pleased at the prospect, were buying grey-market Cadillacs and planning trips to Europe. Farmer John Sternberg of Fulton, Ill. sent a load of Aberdeen Angus heifers to Chicago, got $39.25 a hundred pounds, the highest price per hundred pounds ever paid for heifers on the open market. Ohioans told a story about a farmer who took a bucketful of money to the bank to pay off an $8,000 mortgage.The teller emptied it, said: "There's $10,000 here." Said the farmer...
...convicted of grand larceny (for accepting $1,575 for a carload of rock lath that he never delivered). Gus Fusaro, $50-a-week financial district elevator man who played the market for his friends and lost $250,000 of their money, was convicted of grand larceny and operating a bucket shop...
...door of Locker Room No. 30 at Madison Square Garden, a head poked: "Three minutes to go, Mr. Hickey." The sawed-off evangelist in the brown pin stripe nodded and continued his spiel. "The ball belongs to the champion," he said. "Possession! Control! Don't go for the bucket. Wait until the bucket comes...
...York to see some fashion models who had voted him No. I Leap Year Bachelor, and thus get his picture in the papers. As a self-avowed presidential candidate, he also hoped to rebroadcast a campaign promise-that he would take his "ole cornshuck mop and his ole suds bucket" and sweep up the Democratic Party...
...Bennet's eldest daughter is a pale, 19-year-old girl named Iris. The last three of his twelve children never lived long enough to get names. Farmer George, said his wife in a complaint charging her husband with murder, drowned each of them at birth in a bucket of water...