Word: dustpan
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...After graduation he worked for a little New Hampshire tool company. In Philadelphia in 1902 he set himself up as a maker of batteries, battery testers and intercommunicating telephone systems. His first plant was in a loft where the floor cracks were so wide that he never needed a dustpan...
...nations of Europe were prompt to take alarm at the menace to industry, and even to the social structure. Holland, Portugal and England demonetized gold and Russia prohibited the export of silver. One English financier is quoted as saying that soon gold would only be "fit for the dustpan...