Word: fishbowls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fishbowl v. Pickle...
...there is a photograph entitled "Drawing the First Number" purporting to show Secretary of War Baker pulling out the first of 10,500 capsules. However, the jar is definitely not the one illustrated in TIME, Nov. 11. Mr. Baker's 1917 jar is shaped like a fishbowl and has a small mouth whereas the jar shown in TIME looks like a large glass wastebasket...
...Pictures were taken of Secretary Newton D. Baker taking out the first number, but they were not good. By the time of the second drawing in June, 1918, the pickle jar had already been installed in Philadelphia's Independence Hall. So for the second drawing a fishbowl was obtained and used, and Secretary Baker was again first to put in his hand. Pictures of this second drawing were so good that they leaked into history books with captions indicating it was the first...