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...sight of State Street's prospering bankers and brokers filled him with determined envy. In rapid order, John acquired a pushcart, a store, then the building of which the store was a part. At 26, he was operating a wholesale fruit business and a swank new shop, dealing in imported delicacies. The shop was near the Boston Public Library. Thereafter, John spent all his spare time in the library, poring over volumes on real-estate law and economics...
...industrial workers lagging in output because they get so little food. The expanded cooperatives would become a $1.7 billion business in 1947. This extra output will be marketed through 30,000 new cooperative stores and a host of state-licensed street vendors, who will be individual entrepreneurs like the pushcart peddlers from Naples to Nanking. Items planned for 1947: 375 million buttons, 35 million yards of cloth, 23 million pairs of stockings and 18.5 million pairs of boots and shoes, 4,000 tons of household utensils, 500,000 beds, $100 million worth of furniture. The million extra tons of food...
...warm spring sunshine suddenly found themselves uprooted to make way for football games. Back alleys echoed to the shouts of handball and toss-ha'penny players. The merrily rioting kids stopped politely to give their names and addresses when windows got broken. When one crowd tipped over a pushcart in Dublin's market district, another group of 50 rushed in to set it on its wheels again. Never in the beautiful world had things been righter...
...Brooklyn last week, Huckster Stanley Meola blew up when a cop told him to move his pushcart off famed Fulton Street. Meola, an ex-Army cook, bawled: "I fought the war for the likes of you. I refuse to move on!" That night in court he discovered his mistake. The cop was an ex-Army captain of infantry, just back from four major campaigns in the South Pacific...
...This the Face? In Lincoln, Neb., an amorous aerial gunner noticed the name "Helen" and a phone number on the wall of a booth, dialed, was greeted with, "Hereafter save your nickels and buy war bonds." They Also Serve ... In Manhattan, Gristede Brothers, grocers, sent two boys with each pushcart load of orders - the extra one to stand guard over the butter...