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The Pushcart War was created in 1964.

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Pushcart Press was created in 1972.

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The main character in 'The Pushcart War' is Morris the Florist. He is a pushcart vendor who becomes a central figure in the pushcart vendors' resistance against trucking companies in New York City.

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Chapter 15 of "The Pushcart War" focuses on the aftermath of the pushcart vendors' victory over the truckers. There is celebration among the pushcart vendors, and they reflect on their successful revolution. The chapter highlights the resilience and ingenuity of the pushcart vendors in standing up against the powerful trucking companies.

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The Pushcart War is a popular children's book written by Jean Merrill and illustrated by Ronni Solbert. It was published in 1964 and concerns a war between pushcart peddlers and delivery trucks in New York City. ( source Wikipedia )

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The rising action in "The Pushcart War" involves the escalating conflicts between the pushcart vendors and the trucking companies in New York City, as the pushcart vendors organize and resist the trucking companies' attempts to take over their territories. Tensions rise as both sides become more entrenched in their positions, leading to a series of confrontations and retaliatory actions.

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The Covered Pushcart - 1949 is rated/received certificates of:

USA:Passed (National Board of Review)

USA:Approved (PCA #04731)

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Could maybe handcart or pushcart work?

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They got there by Pushcart, wagon, and boat.

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demand and supply of pushcart

year demand supply

2005 10,986 11,038

2006 9634 9710

2007 10069 9903

2008 10236 10045

2009 9983 8463

2010 10503 9563

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We built a pushcart for vending; it's a little long to try and explain in this box! The most important thing was to get good wheels. We got ours from the Amish "Witmer Coach Shop." They don't have a website. We studied pictures online and developed our own pattern. We made handles from a piece of hickory. You can find our page of instructions if you google "Uncle Shlomo's Pushcart Squidoo." It is not an advertising site.

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Someone who does something somewhere, where somebody else also does something.

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NO! That's what the Author wanted you to think though.

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I remember this one. Basically, a "war" ensues between truckers and pushcart vendors. The book erroneously cites truck traffic as the cause of congestion and excessive traffic in New York City.

In the book, leaders of the three biggest trucking companies develop a plot to take over the streets by eliminating all other forms of traffic off of the streets, and, among others, they target the pushcarts. The pushcart vendors respond by flattening truck tires with "pea tacks" blown through drinking straws. In reality, this plan would have never worked, given the thickness and tread depth of truck tires.

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This could be a peddler, or vendor. Those with handdrawn carts are pushcart peddlers.

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Leaning forward while pushing a heavy loaded pushcart helps to shift the center of mass of the person-cart system forward, providing better stability and reducing the risk of tipping over. It also allows the person to use their body weight and leg muscles more efficiently to push the cart, making it easier to generate the necessary force to move the heavy load.

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Jack Livings (b 1974) is a fiction writer and journalist living in New York City. His work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, A Public Space, The Paris Review, Tin House, Story Quarterly, Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, and on Esquire.com. and MSNBC.com. His story "The Heir," originally published in A Public Space, has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and will appear in Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses.

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No, he did not. This idea comes from the book, "The Pushcart War," which is actually a work of fiction (although the author,Jean Merrill. imaginatively and cleverly makes it seem like a work of historical fact.)

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Varies: Can be a moble file rack as in a mail push cart. Can be similar a wheel barrow but has 2 wheels in the sides. (Garden cart) Can be a variety or low flat deck carts used to move large boxed or items in a store like Costco or HomeDepot.

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Poet and Superstition Review contributor (Issue 3, Issue 7) visited Arizona State University this semester to read assorted selections from his poetry. You can see a video of the event below.

Ray Gonzalez is the author of ten books of poetry and three collections of essays. His poetry has appeared in the 1999, 2000, and 2003 editions of The Best American Poetry (Scribners) and The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses 2000 (Pushcart Press). He is a full-time Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program at The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

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The Tacks Tax was a tax on tax after the discovery of the "Pea-Tacks" found in truck tires during the Peashooter Campaign during the Pustcart War. If you want to know more about the Tacks Tax read, The Pushcart War by Jean Merril.

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Actually the bag itself does not have wheels but they have a push cart that does instead. With the pushcart you basically strap your bag on this tiny device and then push or drag the cart. Here is a link to one http://www.nextag.com/Wilson-Golf-Trio-3-648431157/prices-html I hope that helps.

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The main characters in the film "Push Cart" are Ray and Ali. Ray is a man struggling to support himself through his work as a pushcart operator in Singapore, while Ali is a fellow operator who befriends and helps Ray. The film follows their daily struggles and relationships in the urban landscape.

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern ---H-A-T. That is, eight letter words with 4th letter H and 6th letter A and 8th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

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Pawnbroker, photographer, physical therapist, physician, police officer, postmaster, preacher, private detective, probation officer, professor, proofreader, publisher, purchasing agent and pushcart peddler are jobs. They begin with the letter P.

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern ---H--RT. That is, eight letter words with 4th letter H and 7th letter R and 8th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

yoghourt

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern PU----RT. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter P and 2nd letter U and 7th letter R and 8th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern --SHC-R-. That is, eight letter words with 3rd letter S and 4th letter H and 5th letter C and 7th letter R. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern PU--CA--. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter P and 2nd letter U and 5th letter C and 6th letter A. In alphabetical order, they are:

pumicate

pushcart

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern P---CA-T. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter P and 5th letter C and 6th letter A and 8th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern --SH--RT. That is, eight letter words with 3rd letter S and 4th letter H and 7th letter R and 8th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern P-SH--R-. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter P and 3rd letter S and 4th letter H and 7th letter R. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

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In Spain, 'carreta' is most specifically a low, narrow wagon with a tongue that extends forward from the bottom for pulling. However, in Mexico, carreta is a general purpose word for any small utility vehicle, powered or not, of one, two, three, four or more wheels. A hotdog vendor's pushcart can be a carreta. A trailer that you pull behind a pickup can be a carreta. The taco vendor's mobile kitchen can be a carreta. Even a wheelbarrow can be a carreta.

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern PUS-CA--. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter P and 2nd letter U and 3rd letter S and 5th letter C and 6th letter A. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern P-SH-A-T. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter P and 3rd letter S and 4th letter H and 6th letter A and 8th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

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The Bull Market - Faneuil Hall Marketplace was the country's first to introduce pushcart shopping. The Bull Market's fleet of wooden pushcarts, housed under the Quincy Market glass canopies, is constantly changing to reflect the seasons. Named after the bull atop Quincy Market's weathervane, the ever-changing Bull Market pushcarts provide an opportunity for New England artisans and entrepreneurs to showcase and sell their creations.

http://www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com/tourism4.html

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern PUS-C--T. That is, eight letter words with 1st letter P and 2nd letter U and 3rd letter S and 5th letter C and 8th letter T. In alphabetical order, they are:

pushcart

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compound words beginning with p: * padlock * paintbrush * pancake * paperback * parkway * password * pasteboard * patchwork * pathway * pawnbroker * pawnshop * peacemaker * paycheck * penknife * peppermint * penthouse * photograph * piecemeal * piggyback * pickpocket * piebald * pillowcase * pincushion * pineapple * pinkeye * pipeline * pitchfork * playhouse * playmate * playpen * pocketbook * pockmark * pocketknife * popcorn * postcard * postman * policeman * policewoman * postpaid * postmaster * potshot * postscript * powerhouse * printout * prizefighter * pronghorn * proofread * pullover * pushcart * pushover

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Not to be mistaken for the Salt Creek Canyon Massacre where on June 4, 1858, four Danish immigrants were trapped and murdered by Natives in Salt Creek Canyon, a slowing down east of Nephi, Utah.

That occasion got to be known as the Salt Creek Canyon Massacre.

That occurred in June, 1858, when Danish immigrants Jens Jorgensen and his wife, Jens Terklesen, Christian I. Kjerluf, and John Ericksen were venturing, bel;ieve it or not unarmed, to settle with other Scandinavian immigrants in the Sanpete Valley, Utah Territory.

On the evening of June fourth, they drew near a mile and a 50% of the gorch's opening into the Sanpete Valley when a few Indians rose up out of concealing places and assaulted them.

The gathering was going with a bull group hitched to a wagon and an alternate bull hitched to a pushcart.

Two of the men were murdered and blazed with their wagon. An alternate was executed in the wake of running around 50 yards.

The pregnant lady was murdered with a tomahawk close to the wagon. John Ericksen, who had been strolling some separation in front of the others, got away unharmed, and made it to Ephraim around dawn.

The assault startled the bull connected to the pushcart, and it fled back to Nephi. The exploited people's bodies were conveyed to Ephraim for internment.

There is a Daughters of Utah Pioneers landmark (number 11) denoting the site of the slaughter, in the middle of Nephi and Fountain Green, Utah.

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In order to push something forward, you have to push backward on the ground. If the object isn't very massive, then you don't need to push too hard against the ground, but the more massive it is the harder you have to push.Leaning forward comes from the physics of how your body operates. The way your muscles and joints work, you can exert more force "up" (along the length of your body) than you can "sideways" (perpendicular to the length of your body), because pushing "up" lets you use most of the large muscles in your legs while the "sideways" force comes mostly only from the muscles that rotate your leg at the hip joint. Leaning allows you to use some of that greater capacity to push "up" in a sideways direction.

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In order to push something forward, you have to push backward on the ground. If the object isn't very massive, then you don't need to push too hard against the ground, but the more massive it is the harder you have to push.Leaning forward comes from the physics of how your body operates. The way your muscles and joints work, you can exert more force "up" (along the length of your body) than you can "sideways" (perpendicular to the length of your body), because pushing "up" lets you use most of the large muscles in your legs while the "sideways" force comes mostly only from the muscles that rotate your leg at the hip joint. Leaning allows you to use some of that greater capacity to push "up" in a sideways direction.

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The cast of The Harder They Come - 1972 includes: Beverly Anderson as Housewife Janet Bartley as Elsa Carl Bradshaw as Jose Prince Buster as DJ at Dance Elijah Chambers as Longa Bob Charlton as Hilton Jimmy Cliff as Ivanhoe "Ivan" Martin Ras Daniel Hartman as Pedro Joanne Dunn as Barmaid Ula Fraser as Elsa Friend Toots Hibbert as himself Volair Johnson as Pushcart Boy Basil Keane as Preacher Carol Lawes as Elsa Friend Karl Leslie as Freddie Clover Lewis as Market Woman Bobby Loban as Fitz Sandra Redwood as Girl Adrian Robinson as Editor Winston Stona as Detective Ray Jones Don Topping as DJ Lucia White as Mother

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The ice cream sandwich was probably invented in the summer of 1900 on the Lower East Side of New York City.[citation needed] July 5, 1900 Washington Post contains this story from the New York Tribune: "The ice cream sandwich man, who sells quarter-inch layers of alleged ice cream between tiny slabs of water wafers, did a big business during the hot spell and his field of operation was within the district inhabited by the Nordic enclaves, and his pushcart was elaborately decorated with signs in runic characters. He made the sandwiches quickly in a tin mold, and was kept so busy that he could not make change, but insisted on receiving the actual price for each ice cream sandwich - 1 cent." at greenburgh just saying i didnt write that and some one else way smarter than me did.

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· Parachute Packer

· Piano Player

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· Portrait Photographer

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· Plant Protection Guard

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· Paper Plate Machine Operator

· Painter

· Paperhanger

· Paralegal

· Paramedic

· Parking Lot Attendant

· Pastry Chef

· Patent Attorney

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· Payroll Clerk

· Performing Arts Director

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· Pharmacist

· Philosophy Teacher

· Photographer

· Physical Therapist

· Physician

· Physicist

· Physics Teacher

· Pipefitter

· Plumber

· Podiatrist

· Police Officer

· Police Dispatcher

· Pool Attendant

· Postal Service Clerk

· Postal Service Mail Processing Machine Operator

· Postmaster

· Preacher

· Preschool Teacher

· Priest

· Printing Press Operator

· Private Detective

· Probation Officer

· Product Promoters

· Professional Boxer

· Professional Racing Driver

· Professor

· Proofreader

· Psychiatrist

· Public Address System Announcer

· Public health policy analyst

· Publicity person

· Publisher

· Purchasing Agent

· Pushcart Peddler

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· Parachute Packer

· Piano Player

· Parcel Post Clerk

· Parish Priest

· Peanut Picker

· Portrait Photographer

· Potato Peeler

· Professional Pool Player

· Poultry Packer

· Production Planner

· Power Plant Operator

· Plant Protection Guard

· Petroleum Pump System Operator

· Paper Plate Machine Operator

· Painter

· Paperhanger

· Paralegal

· Paramedic

· Parking Lot Attendant

· Pastry Chef

· Patent Attorney

· Pawnbroker

· Payroll Clerk

· Performing Arts Director

· Pest Control Worker

· Pharmacist

· Philosophy Teacher

· Photographer

· Physical Therapist

· Physician

· Physicist

· Physics Teacher

· Pipefitter

· Plumber

· Podiatrist

· Police Officer

· Police Dispatcher

· Pool Attendant

· Postal Service Clerk

· Postal Service Mail Processing Machine Operator

· Postmaster

· Preacher

· Preschool Teacher

· Priest

· Printing Press Operator

· Private Detective

· Probation Officer

· Product Promoters

· Professional Boxer

· Professional Racing Driver

· Professor

· Proofreader

· Psychiatrist

· Public Address System Announcer

· Public health policy analyst

· Publicity person

· Publisher

· Purchasing Agent

· Pushcart Peddler

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· Piano Player

· Painter

· Paper Plate Machine Operator

· Paperhanger

· Parachute Packer

· Paralegal

· Paramedic

· Parcel Post Clerk

· Parish Priest

· Parking Lot Attendant

· Pastry Chef

· Patent Attorney

· Pawnbroker

· Payroll Clerk

· Peanut Picker

· Performing Arts Director

· Pest Control Worker

· Petroleum Pump System Operator

· Pharmacist

· Philosophy Teacher

· Photographer

· Physical Therapist

· Physician

· Physicist

· Physics Teacher

· Pipefitter

· Plant Protection Guard

· Plumber

· Podiatrist

· Police Officer

· Police Dispatcher

· Pool Attendant

· Portrait Photographer

· Postal Service Clerk

· Postal Service Mail Processing Machine Operator

· Postmaster

· Potato Peeler

· Poultry Packer

· Power Plant Operator

· Preacher

· Preschool Teacher

· Priest

· Printing Press Operator

· Private Detective

· Probation Officer

· Product Promoters

· Production Planner

· Professional Boxer

· Professional Pool Player

· Professional Racing Driver

· Professor

· Proofreader

· Psychiatrist

· Public Address System Announcer

· Public health policy analyst

· Publicity person

· Publisher

· Purchasing Agent

· Pushcart Peddler

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· Parachute Packer

· Piano Player

· Parcel Post Clerk

· Parish Priest

· Peanut Picker

· Portrait Photographer

· Potato Peeler

· Professional Pool Player

· Poultry Packer

· Production Planner

· Power Plant Operator

· Plant Protection Guard

· Petroleum Pump System Operator

· Paper Plate Machine Operator

· Painter

· Paperhanger

· Paralegal

· Paramedic

· Parking Lot Attendant

· Pastry Chef

· Patent Attorney

· Pawnbroker

· Payroll Clerk

· Performing Arts Director

· Pest Control Worker

· Pharmacist

· Philosophy Teacher

· Photographer

· Physical Therapist

· Physician

· Physicist

· Physics Teacher

· Pipefitter

· Plumber

· Podiatrist

· Police Officer

· Police Dispatcher

· Pool Attendant

· Postal Service Clerk

· Postal Service Mail Processing Machine Operator

· Postmaster

· Preacher

· Preschool Teacher

· Priest

· Printing Press Operator

· Private Detective

· Probation Officer

· Product Promoters

· Professional Boxer

· Professional Racing Driver

· Professor

· Proofreader

· Psychiatrist

· Public Address System Announcer

· Public health policy analyst

· Publicity person

· Publisher

· Purchasing Agent

· Pushcart Peddler

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· Painter

· Paper Plate Machine Operator

· Paperhanger

· Parachute Packer

· Paralegal

· Paramedic

· Parcel Post Clerk

· Parish Priest

· Parking Lot Attendant

· Pastry Chef

· Patent Attorney

· Pawnbroker

· Payroll Clerk

· Peanut Picker

· Performing Arts Director

· Pest Control Worker

· Petroleum Pump System Operator

· Pharmacist

· Philosophy Teacher

· Photographer

· Physical Therapist

· Physician

· Physicist

· Physics Teacher

· Piano Player

· Pipefitter

· Plant Protection Guard

· Plumber

· Podiatrist

· Police Officer

· Police Dispatcher

· Pool Attendant

· Portrait Photographer

· Postal Service Clerk

· Postal Service Mail Processing Machine Operator

· Postmaster

· Potato Peeler

· Poultry Packer

· Power Plant Operator

· Preacher

· Preschool Teacher

· Priest

· Printing Press Operator

· Private Detective

· Probation Officer

· Product Promoters

· Production Planner

· Professional Boxer

· Professional Pool Player

· Professional Racing Driver

· Professor

· Proofreader

· Psychiatrist

· Public Address System Announcer

· Public health policy analyst

· Publicity person

· Publisher

· Purchasing Agent

· Pushcart Peddler

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