Word: sweepers
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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They chucked out the $115,169 budget that the men had left them, got the new total down to $89,176.51 by bumping one policeman and one city street sweeper, voting down the scheduled purchase of a new police car and a street-cleaning machine (under the new regime, inmates of the city jail sweep the streets). Serving without pay themselves, the women slashed the salary of City Attorney Angelo Mosco, long a political power in Walsenburg, from $1,744.50 to $800 a year. Mosco brought charges of malfeasance against Mayor Stacy & Co. in the state district court, lost...
...village squares, its courtyards and bedrooms. Not only does this lead to agonizing backaches, spinal curvature and a characteristic cringing posture, but also years of inhaling the clouds of dust stirred up contribute to an alarming pulmonary tuberculosis rate. Yet generations of foreign travelers, "asking why India's sweepers do not use a stand-up broom with a handle, have invariably been answered with a shrug: "It's cheaper to hire another sweeper when the old one dies than pay the few annas for a broom handle...
...Harriet Bunker, wife of able U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. Soon after arriving in New Delhi three years ago, she noticed that even when she was in another part of the embassy with the doors closed, she began coughing when an embassy servant began sweeping. She reasoned that the sweeper himself must be inhaling a lethal quantity of dust-and could not be doing a very good cleaning job besides. Grabbing a long-handled, American-made broom, the ambassador's wife showed the sweeper how to use it so that the dust, instead of flying into the air, stayed...
...Another Thing. To get a national reform rolling, Nehru urged states and municipalities to supply long-handled brooms to their sweepers, even if the tradition-bound sweepers might in some instances object. Then he went Harriet Bunker one better: besides cleaning India's streets, untouchables must also empty India's privies, carrying away the night soil uncovered in open wheelbarrows or loosely woven baskets or pans borne, coolie-fashion, on the head. Such a practice, said Nehru, is a "disgusting sight. Every sweeper should be given a proper container with...
...Prague-born, retired Cash Register Salesman Karl D. Umrath, 76, who migrated to the U.S. in 1902 and started as a $6-a-week floor sweeper, was disclosed as the anonymous donor of $1,000,000 to Washington University a year ago, when his wife last week gave the school another $200,000. The Umraths, still living in the modest brick house in St. Louis in which they were married 55 years ago, seemed unlikely bets for anybody's fund-raising list. But Umrath started investing when he arrived in the U.S., during the Depression picked up blue-chip...