hawking

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In 1938, Pennington pitched a tent outside the hiring hall for workers building the Shasta Dam, set up some tree stumps for seats and started hawking grub.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Perhaps the most interesting of these is Carl Williams, the founder of Karl Kani, who made his start hawking baggy jeans out of the trunk of his car in Flatbush.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

He said that ServiceNow works with major companies and can leverage those longstanding relationships to fend off competition from new vendors hawking agentic AI offerings.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 31, 2026

Vietnamese crypto startups hawking everything from NFTs to blockchain-based lending and trading services have been hammered, with bankruptcies and layoffs roiling the industry.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

On the streets, vendors with pushcarts made their way through the throngs, hawking hot dogs and ice cream cones.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown