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Ferris added that because the count was made during the iced-tea season, contamination could have resulted from "someone sticking his fist in the ice bucket." Other possible causes of the unacceptably high count were the use of unclean utensils or infected tea leaves in the preparation of the tea, or allowing the tea to stand at room temperature for several hours...
...Hell with a Bucket. Oklahoma's Kerr was also chairman of the Rivers and Harbors subcommittee, which rolls out the pork barrel. When other Senators wanted approval of pet home-state spending projects, they had to come to Kerr-and he always remembered his debtors. He was as ruthless in public debate as in private trading. He once made a Senate speech claiming that Republican Dwight Eisenhower could not comprehend the nation's fiscal policies, "because one cannot do that without brains, and he does not have them." There upon Indiana's loyal but hapless Republican Senator...
...goes to those who seek it. Kerr sought it and, even though he held no official leadership title, he soon became known as the Senator to see to get things done. He was, said the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, the "kind of man who would charge hell with a bucket of water and think he could put it out." When he first went to the Senate, he was worth about $3,000,000; at the time of his death, his wealth was estimated at $35 to $40 million...
Scheduled to be ready in 1964, the stadium will seat 46,000 in plush bucket-type seats for baseball, 52,000 for football, and upwards of 65,000 for fights and conventions. The dome will be 202 ft. high (well clear of the most towering fly), and its seven tiers will be served by escalators. There will be facilities for 25,000 cars...
Mutiny on the Bounty. It was just a drop in the bucket to begin with. On the morning of April 28, 1789, goes one version of the story. Captain William Bligh of H.M.S. Bounty refused to give a drink of water to a dying man and his crew staged a mutiny. The incident inspired a trilogy of bestselling novels (1932-34) by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and a supercolossal saga of the sea (1935) starring Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh. In 1959, figuring that the public was ready to stretch...