Word: bootblack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bottles a year in the islands. Last year, Filipinos tossed off a dizzying 193 million, which meant twelve bottles of Coke for every Filipino, including babes in arms and Huk rebels in the mountains. Filipinos were crying for more. Manilans tell the story of an ex-bootblack who makes a living hanging around Coke machines and selling 10-centavo pieces (the only coins that fit the machines) for 15 centavos to thirsty people who are too eager to go and get the proper change...
...John Maragon, the wily Washington five-percenter, an ex-Kansas City bootblack who traded on gall and his friendship with Presidential Aide Harry Vaughan, was indicted for perjury by a Washington grand jury on charges of lying to a Senate subcommittee last July when he said he had never done business with the government for commissions...