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Ever since the 1910s, when peddlers on horse-drawn carts began to ladle out vanilla at 15? a pailful, the traveling ice cream man has been an American folk hero. To the young, he has become better known than the fire chief, more welcome than the mailman, more respected than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food & Drink: Sticky Business | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

¶MILK, which once arrived from the dairy in a pail, then in bottles, then mostly in leak-prone cartons, is now flowing back by the pailful. Several hundred dairies are now delivering milk in five, six-or ten-quart containers, consisting of a cardboard box shaped to fit easily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market Place: New Products | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

Next day through a shouting, hooting mob the tumbrils brought Robespierre and 21 colleagues to a hastily erected guillotine. Unlike Danton, Robespierre said nothing even when a child, "carrying a pailful of ox's blood and a whisk broom," stepped up to Robespierre's house and sprinkled the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sea-Green Monster | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Professor Pearl (from Baltimore the next day): "My publication ... of life tables of smokers . . . showed that smoking was harmful. ... So far from not having been given publicity, the matter has been printed in every cross-roads newspaper in the country and the clippings have been delivered to me by the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Suppression of News | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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