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  • n  the quantity contained in a pail

  • 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 pailful ".
  • FOOD DRINK 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.
  • 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.

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