THERE'S an old Yiddish saying (there's always an old Yiddish saying): If your aunt had wheels she'd be a pushcart.
We are in the process of trying to convince policymakers to launch a similar organisation to Yeshasvini which will cover the health-care cost of construction workers, farm labourers, pushcart vendors, housemaids and the rest.
Resourceful crews, using a jack, a pushcart and a truck, are making away with huge safes, weighing as much as several hundred kilograms.
An old man from Michoacán, peddling mango and papaya from his pushcart in the freezing weather, says he arrived 21 years ago and still doesn't speak English.
Mustafa Tamimi, a political-science student at Baghdad's Mustansiriya university, dismisses the institution as "a factory of unemployment".The troubles suffered by Muhammad Bouazizi, the unlicensed Tunisian pushcart entrepreneur whose self-immolation sparked off the Arab spring, are still faced by millions every day.
A father and son team were flogging fresh anchovies from an icy pushcart.
Young Siegel began his career extorting money from Jewish pushcart peddlers on New York's Lower East Side; he then teamed up with Meyer Lansky about 1918 and took to car theft and later bootlegging and gambling rackets in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia; he and Lansky also ran a murder-for-hire operation, the forerunner of Murder, Inc.
Adrien's mother told me that all along the road they saw Tutsi corpses, and when they got to the camp there was a pushcart with the bodies of three young boys and two girls.
He became a pushcart vender and on warm days sold hot dogs in front of the Capitol.
Tells about a grocer's headache with point rationing and food shortage; and about Patsy's rise from pushcart peddling to a successful businessman.
Some of the pushcart peddlers are skeptical that kids could possibly understand their struggle.
