Word: sweepers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Next I talked to Mrs. Horn. 'I wanted to buy a $299.95 refrigerator,' she said, 'but it was more than I could pay. I didn't want to buy it on installments. We weathered one depression that caught us paying on two babies, washer, car,, sweeper and furniture. So I said no to the refrigerator salesman and bought a secondhand one for $125.. . . I had a funny feeling that the $299.95 refrigerator would cost $229.95 next fall...
Cancer & Consumption. The only good thing about a climbing-boy's life was that it was likely to be short. Most of them were sold, at five or six, to a master-sweeper, sometimes by their parents, sometimes by the overseer of an almshouse; many were kidnaped by unscrupulous masters...
Soot filled every pore, inflamed the eyes, lodged in the scrotum and caused the horrid "sooty-wart" or "chimney sweeper's cancer." Many boys were made consumptive by the lack of food, the damp cellars where they slept on soot-bags, and the chill of early mornings when they tramped the streets crying, "Sweep for the soot O! Sweeeup!" at the top of their poor, frayed lungs...
Last week in New Delhi's Bhangi colony, where municipal sweepers are lodged and where Mahatma Gandhi once lived, one turbaned Untouchable said: "Thirty years ago, if I entered a shop, I had to stand apart from other customers; if I touched a piece of cloth, I had to buy it. Now I can go anywhere and my children go to school, but I am still a sweeper, and my pay of 65 rupees a month does not buy me what 20 used to." The sweeper had not even heard of the Constituent Assembly, which was sitting only three...
...trend toward realism in toys may amaze some parents. For boys, there is a service station whose lubricating-hoist, air-hose and gasoline pump really work. For girls, there is an electric vacuum sweeper that sweeps, and scores of stuffed animals and dolls that demonstrate one or another fact of life. There are hens that lay and pregnant dogs and rabbits whose offspring tumble out of zippered stomachs. There are dolls that coo when patted and cry when spanked and eat crackers (removable from a hole in the neck). There is even one which blows bubbles and, if "burped" like...