Word: pushcart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly after 9 o'clock that morning a man in a white apron rolled a pushcart filled with gunny sacks up to the loading platform of a Rubel plant in the Bay Ridge district of Brooklyn. He pushed away an inquisitive child who poked among his sacks, strolled across the street to some tennis courts, lolled on the grass all the forenoon. Later a nattily dressed character sauntered into the neighborhood, obligingly tossed back a ball that had bounced across the tennis court fence. A third character drove up in a huckster's wagon and, waiting for the noon...
...closing and locking of that door from the inside by the driver. At that precise moment, after the U. S. Trucking Corp.'s car had halted close to the Rubel platform, the man in the white apron whipped out a submachine gun from beneath the sacks on his pushcart. Instantly he was surrounded by numerous allies, some of whom had just drawn up in three automobiles. Others, like the natty dresser and the inexpert huckster, emerged from the crowd that had loitered about the plant during the morning. Like a crack football team, the robbers went through their criminal plays...
...week ended, all the police had as evidence were the pushcart, some fingerprints on the abandoned car and a scuttled lobster boat which they were trying to connect with the case. In tracing the escape boats they were embar- rassed to find no less than 22 innocent Popeyes...
Chicago's first major trade racket mur der occurred on the warm afternoon of Aug. 3, 1926 when Morris Markowitz, one time Russian pushcart peddler who be came an independent teamster but refused to join a ruthless teamsters' union, was shot down at 37th & Princeton Streets. Since then no less than 274 business rackets have been uncovered, varying from bootblacks, fish dealers and candy jobbers to garagemen, glaziers and electricians...
...Bronx, when Officer Pierce Glynn ordered him to move his pushcart, Phil Cohen, cherry peddler, refused. Officer Glynn arrested Peddler Cohen, ordered him to push his cart to the police station. Peddler Cohen flatly refused. Sweating Officer Glynn trudged the pushcart to the police station. Peddler Cohen marching by his side blithely chanting: "Chay-reeeees! fresh chay-reeeees...