Sentences with phrase «sweep factory floors»

Li Ka - shing, a wartime refugee who used to sweep factory floors in Hong Kong for a living, retired after a career spanning more than half a century amassing one of Asia's biggest fortunes from building skyscrapers to selling soap bars.

One - time presidential candidate Walter Mondale warned Americans that unless things changed, there would be no future for their children other than to sweep the factory floors between Japanese - made computers.

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Sweeping floors, shoveling snow, and cleaning cars turned into a factory apprenticeship that lasted four and a half years.