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...railroad mechanic, he roamed from job to job, hitched rides on freight trains and occasionally panhandled when he was broke. But his curiosity about tools and machines was endless and his skill in using them not far from genius. After high school in Ellis, Kans., he started as a sweeper in the local railroad shop at 10? an hour. By the time he bought the Locomobile, he was superintendent of motive power for the Chicago Great Western Railway...
...American Red Cross officer, chairman (1939-41) of the New York World's Fair, sportsman, joiner, booster (he spent more than $300,000 to make his home town of North Conway, N.H. a fancy ski resort); of a heart ailment; in Boston. Gibson started out as a floor-sweeper after his graduation from Bowdoin College, became a bank president at 35. He was general manager of the Red Cross in World War I, its commissioner to Great Britain, then to Western Europe, in World...
...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...