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Fordyce Drop Forge & Tool Factory. His first appearaace is as a common workman-though later he becomes general manager-going to his job with his dinner pail. The dinner pail is the size of an automobile crate and it contains a hogshead of coffee. From this point on the audience is relieved of all sense of proportion and reason...
...another statue of General Lee and Horse Traveller before funds ran out. Then Lukeman, too, washed his hands of Stone Mountain, went north. Three months ago one Will Tuggle, Atlanta Justice of the Peace, attracted attention to Stone Mountain by scaling the back of Traveller and pouring thereon a pail of "colored brick water." The "brickwater" trickled through Traveller, made a large and ugly stain beneath, thereby proving Will Tuggle's premise that a crevice existed which might in time become a rift and finally a mountainside to carry the whole memorial down to the dust heap below (TIME, June...
...find breweries, Mr. Dengler advises trailing "trucks delivering wort* or other supplies. Various expedients may be used. Officers have used a pail of sand fastened to the axle. A hole in the bottom and plug with a string attached to the wheel completes the outfit which makes the sand trail when the truck starts. Others have taken speedometer readings to get an idea as to the distance covered. ... A man or boy on a bicycle can follow a truck without suspicion...
...only air that can get in comes in directly through a space covered by chicken wire at the top of the front. It is about six inches by eight feet. One cannot see his hand in front of him when inside. There is no furniture except a blanket and pail in a corner. Girls have been kept in these dungeons for as long as two weeks...
...Manhattan, Joseph Stencel, aged 17 months, crawled from his crib, peered into a pail of water, tumbled in, was retrieved half-drowned by Mother Stencel...