Word: shover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Little Giant." E. H. (for Edward Henry) Harriman, the son of an impecunious Episcopal clergyman, went to work at 14 as a $5-a-week pad-shover (messenger-clerk) in Wall Street. A brilliant lad with a phenomenal memory, he studied the market, watched the rich and great of the Street in their buying. Soon he began to buy and win. At 18 he was a junior partner in an uncle's firm; in 1870, when he was 22, he had his own firm and a seat on the Exchange. Eventually, he became the "Little Giant" of Wall Street...