The cards banged against the brick wall of my grade school. It was recess and we were playing cards. Our teachers knew what we were doing. Gambling. The stakes were high. At least we thought so. Whoever had a card closer to that red brick wall won.
“Shine! Shine!” That cry rang out in downtown Waterbury, Conn., in the mid-1950s. A group of working-class youth, shoeboxes in hand, plied their trade, usually for a quarter a shine. Little did they know, less than a century earlier and many years before that, a similar cry Sweep! Sweep!” could be heard on the streets of London. Those youth, many just children, toiled under much more dire circumstances.
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On September 29, 2015, the container ship El Faro, which means lighthouse, left port in Jacksonville, Fla. It was carrying 25 million pounds of cargo, including such diverse commodities as 149 cars and fructose syrup. Its destination was San Juan, Puerto Rico, but it never got there.