Word: cleaner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge looked about her with interest. "What a fine new vacuum cleaner! And how fresh the woodwork looks with its new paint. Those two harmonizing blue colonial wallpapers in our bedrooms are really very well chosen. Whatever is left of the $50,000 for renovation will buy a new rug for the Green Room...
Back in 1909, one Fred Wardell became a "one-horse distributor" of electric vacuum cleaners. While he himself canvassed, his sole employee-a girl stenographer-ran his entire office. After four years of this, he proceeded to buy out the manufacturing end of the business, and acquired five men to help him run it. During the dark days of 1920, these five stuck to Wardell and his vacuum cleaners. Today, the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co., Detroit, is the largest manufacturing concern of its type in the world, with 250,000 shares of stock outstanding and no bonds or preferred ahead...
Purer water, increasing the supply to a billion gallons a day; better police and fire protection; cleaner streets; improved health conditions--Contributing to New York City's conspicuous place among the safest and healthiest cities in the world...
University students do not take much stock in the superstition that walking under a ladder brings bad luck. A lamp cleaner placed his ladder across the walk leaning against a lamp post on the corner of Quincy Street and Massachusetts Avenue. During the five minutes the ladder was across the walk, 22 men, most of them students, walked boldly under the ladder and tempted the gods of fate. In the same interval only one person took the trouble of walking around the foot of the ladder and avoid the consequent ill fortune...
...Congress, where presumably Mr. Davis could not get at it, there is a regular election within two years. Since Mr. Davis is making his whole fight on republican corruption he should not have accepted the Democratic nomination if he thought that he would be an incapable spring cleaner. Attacking corruption in places under the control of the office for which one is contending implies an ability to deal adequately with the situation if one is elected...