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* ThrownFromTheZeppelin: Teased but subverted during the Three's meeting about their master plan. Walter the Tiger says that he doesn't mind pushcarts and small trucks and feels conflicted about the next step. Louie and Big Moe pointedly tell him that he can get onboard or the Three will become the Two, and he reluctantly backs down.
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* TheAllegedExpert: The three qualified panelists on a panel to discuss NYC's horrendous traffic do nothing of note besides discussing things that people already know in fancier terms and suggesting "a more thorough conditioning of drivers to hopeless situations." The only remotely accurate and insightful comment gets uttered by a movie star who is only invited to the panel as a publicity stunt.
--> ''"And what do you think, Ms. Gambling?" asked the moderator, as the there experts began to argue with each other.''
--> ''"I don't know what they're talking about." said Wenda Gambling.''
--> ''"Well," said the moderator, who was not quite sure himself, "I believe our subject this evening was traffic."''
--> ''"Oh," said Wenda Gambling. "Well I think there are too many trucks and that the trucks are too big."''
--> ''"And what do you think, Ms. Gambling?" asked the moderator, as the there experts began to argue with each other.''
--> ''"I don't know what they're talking about." said Wenda Gambling.''
--> ''"Well," said the moderator, who was not quite sure himself, "I believe our subject this evening was traffic."''
--> ''"Oh," said Wenda Gambling. "Well I think there are too many trucks and that the trucks are too big."''
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Maxie Hammerman.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The novel claims it was based on a true story. While certain events are implausible (like attacking trucks with pea-shooters), it's theoretically ''possible''... until you realize that the copyright date is [[NextSundayAD before the time that the events in the book supposedly take place]]. This is deliberate, as the book was presented as a history written long after the events described therein. Interestingly, its publishers update the "historical" time frame with each new edition. It was originally published in 1964 describing events in 1975. Later releases said 1986 and 1998. The most recent version says 2029.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The novel claims it was based on a true story. While certain events are implausible (like attacking trucks with pea-shooters), it's theoretically ''possible''... until you realize that the copyright date is [[NextSundayAD before the time that the events in the book supposedly take place]]. This is deliberate, as the book was presented as a history written long after the events described therein. Interestingly, its publishers update the "historical" time frame with each new edition. It was originally published in 1964 describing events in 1975. Later releases said 1986 and 1998. The most recent version says 2029.
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* CoolOldLady: General Anna, who pops the truck tires by hand and is remarkably successful, thanks to looking like a harmless granny who's just looking for something that fell on the ground.
* CorruptPolitician: Mayor Emmett P. Cudd.
* CorruptPolitician: Mayor Emmett P. Cudd.
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* CoolOldLady: General Anna, who pops the truck tires by hand ''by hand'' and is remarkably successful, thanks to looking like a harmless granny who's just looking for something that fell on the ground.
* CorruptPolitician: Mayor Emmett P. Cudd. At the end [[spoiler:he senses which way the wind is blowing and changes his tune, winning a third term]].
* CorruptPolitician: Mayor Emmett P. Cudd. At the end [[spoiler:he senses which way the wind is blowing and changes his tune, winning a third term]].
* NextSundayAD: After its initial press run, later editions have bumped up the date of the book from 1976 to 1986, 1998, and now 2029.
* SignatureHeadgear: Frank the Flower always wears a hat with fresh flowers in it, changing them every day.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: After its initial press run, later editions have bumped up the date of the book from 1976 to 1986, 1998, and now 2029.
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** While the police chief is somewhat ignorant about the real nature of the trucks-pushcart war and a bit too eager to believe Frank the Flowers confession, he does refuse to charge Maxie after being presented alternate explanations for the evidence against him, and refuses to release Mack from jail (despite pressure form the mayor and the Big Three) over his many crimes.
** The head of the pea tack squad is diligent in his duties (and smart enough to know a real suspect when he hears Maxie Hammer's name), but is also apologetic after realizing how he's been (somewhat) unjustly suspicious of a factory owner who he went to a lot of effort to besiege when the man refused his orders to shut down.
** The head of the pea tack squad is diligent in his duties (and smart enough to know a real suspect when he hears Maxie Hammer's name), but is also apologetic after realizing how he's been (somewhat) unjustly suspicious of a factory owner who he went to a lot of effort to besiege when the man refused his orders to shut down.
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** The head of the pea tack squad is diligent in his duties (and smart enough to know a real suspect when he hears MaxieHammer's Hammerman's name), but is also apologetic after realizing how he's been (somewhat) unjustly suspicious of a factory owner who he went to a lot of effort to besiege when the man refused his orders to shut down.
** The head of the pea tack squad is diligent in his duties (and smart enough to know a real suspect when he hears Maxie
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* LettersToTheEditor: When the photo of Mack hitting Morris the Florist is published in the papers, hundreds of letters in support of the pushcarts sent in, signifying public support for the pushcarts.
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* ThePlan: The trucking companies plan to monopolize the city streets by first getting rid of the pushcart before going after other smaller vehicles. Needless to say, the pushcart vendors prove to be a lot more trouble than expected.
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* ThePlan: The trucking companies plan to monopolize the city streets by first getting rid of the pushcart pushcarts before going after other smaller vehicles. Needless to say, the pushcart vendors prove to be a lot more trouble than expected.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: InUniverse, while Wenda Gambling is a major backer of the Puschart operators, a movie that gets made about the war has her fire the first shot at a truck tire, and save the life of Morris the Florist during the peace march, when really it was deemed that too many people would be watching Wenda to have her shooting any tire be smart, and it was General Anna who saved Morris.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: InUniverse, while Wenda Gambling is a major backer of the Puschart Pushcart operators, a movie that gets made about the war has her fire the first shot at a truck tire, and save the life of Morris the Florist during the peace march, when really it was deemed that too many people would be watching Wenda to have her shooting any tire be smart, and it was General Anna who saved Morris.
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* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: InUniverse, while Wenda Gambling is a major backer of the Puschart operators, a movie that gets made about the war has her fire the first shot at a truck fire, tire, and save the life of Morris the Florist during the peace march, when really it was deemed that too many people would be watching Wenda to have her shooting any tire be smart, and it was General Anna who saved Morris.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Many of the pushcart peddlers use sentence constructions that are typical of native Yiddish speakers who later learned English. Some of their names are AmbiguouslyJewish too - most notably Mr. Jerusalem.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Many of the pushcart peddlers use sentence constructions that are typical of native Yiddish speakers who later learned English. Some of their names are AmbiguouslyJewish too - most notably Mr. Jerusalem.Jerusalem and Papa Peretz.
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* CreatorCameo: Jean Merrill is one of the people who wrote letters to the editor in the story.
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* CreatorCameo: Jean Merrill is one of and Ronni Solbert both appear among the people list of New Yorkers who wrote letters to the editor in support of the story.pushcarts.
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* AmbiguouslyJewish: Several of the pushcart peddlers, given their names. Most notable is Mr. Jerusalem, the one who buys and sells junk.
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* TheAce: Harry the Hotdog holds the record for the most popped tires and is pretty proud of it.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Several of the pushcart peddlers, given their names. Most notable is Mr. Jerusalem, the one who buys and sells junk.
* AmbiguouslyJewish: Several of the pushcart peddlers, given their names. Most notable is Mr. Jerusalem, the one who buys and sells junk.
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* CommanderContrarian: PlayedForLaughs with Papa Peretz, the most nervous and hesitating of the senior pushcart peddlers, but still a dedicated member of the group.
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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Louie Livergreen of the Big Three is the son of a (now dead) pushcart peddler who was a caring, hard-working man, while Louie is a CorruptCorporateExecutive who is openly ashamed of his father and never visited him after making it big.
* MeaningfulName: Maxie Hammerman is a pushcart repairman who uses a hammer a lot.
* NoodleIncident: The head of the pea tack squad is mentioned as being one of the few people in the city who knows that Maxie is the pushcart king, but the circumstances behind this are never explained.
* MeaningfulName: Maxie Hammerman is a pushcart repairman who uses a hammer a lot.
* NoodleIncident: The head of the pea tack squad is mentioned as being one of the few people in the city who knows that Maxie is the pushcart king, but the circumstances behind this are never explained.
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** While the police chief is somewhat ignorant about the real nature of the trucks-pushcart war and a bit too eager to believe Frank the Flowers confession, he does refuse to charge Maxie after being presented alternate explanations for the evidence against him, and refuses to release Mack from jail (despite pressure form the mayor and the Big Three) over his many crimes.
** The head of the pea tack squad is diligent in his duties (and smart enough to know a real suspect when he hears Maxie Hammer's name), but is also apologetic after realizing how he's been (somewhat) unjustly suspicious of a factory owner who he went to a lot of effort to besiege when the man refused his orders to shut down.
* RefugeInAudacity: When a policeman notices Anna bending over, prepared to pop a truck tire, she tells him that she's looking for her lost hatpin and he believes her, helps her find the pin that she'd been about to pop a tire with (and covertly popped a tire with during her approach) then wishes her a good day.
** While the police chief is somewhat ignorant about the real nature of the trucks-pushcart war and a bit too eager to believe Frank the Flowers confession, he does refuse to charge Maxie after being presented alternate explanations for the evidence against him, and refuses to release Mack from jail (despite pressure form the mayor and the Big Three) over his many crimes.
** The head of the pea tack squad is diligent in his duties (and smart enough to know a real suspect when he hears Maxie Hammer's name), but is also apologetic after realizing how he's been (somewhat) unjustly suspicious of a factory owner who he went to a lot of effort to besiege when the man refused his orders to shut down.
* RefugeInAudacity: When a policeman notices Anna bending over, prepared to pop a truck tire, she tells him that she's looking for her lost hatpin and he believes her, helps her find the pin that she'd been about to pop a tire with (and covertly popped a tire with during her approach) then wishes her a good day.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Walter the Tiger is the only one of the Big Three to ever show much discomfort with their plans or question the other two, although it doesn't amount to that much.
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* PopTheTires: The pushcarters get revenge on trucks by using pea-shooters to shoot pins at their tires. Although they aim at parked/stuck-in-traffic trucks to keep them stopped; they avoid shooting at people or deliberately causing an accident.
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* LettersToTheEditor: When the photo of Mack hitting Morris the Florist is published in the papers, hundreds of letters in support of the pushcarts sent in, signifying public support for the pushcarts.
* ThePlan: The trucking companies plan to monopolize the city streets by first getting rid of the pushcart before going after other smaller vehicles. Needless to say, the pushcart vendors prove to be a lot more trouble than expected.
* PopTheTires: The pushcarters get revenge on trucks by using pea-shooters to shoot pins at their tires. Although they aim at parked/stuck-in-traffic trucks to keep them stopped; they avoid shooting at people or deliberately causing an accident. When Frank gets caught popping a tire and jailed for it, the pushcarters stop, only for the children of the city to copy Frank's "crime" for fun.
* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Maxie is interrogated by the police commissioner about the map that shows where trucks have gotten their tires popped. Maxie claims that its a map where pushcarts have been doing good business, and the fact they are at locations where trucks gotten flat tires is due to how the stalled trucks caused those who lived nearby to rely on the pushcart vendors for their errands.
* ThePlan: The trucking companies plan to monopolize the city streets by first getting rid of the pushcart before going after other smaller vehicles. Needless to say, the pushcart vendors prove to be a lot more trouble than expected.
* PopTheTires: The pushcarters get revenge on trucks by using pea-shooters to shoot pins at their tires. Although they aim at parked/stuck-in-traffic trucks to keep them stopped; they avoid shooting at people or deliberately causing an accident. When Frank gets caught popping a tire and jailed for it, the pushcarters stop, only for the children of the city to copy Frank's "crime" for fun.
* SeamlessSpontaneousLie: Maxie is interrogated by the police commissioner about the map that shows where trucks have gotten their tires popped. Maxie claims that its a map where pushcarts have been doing good business, and the fact they are at locations where trucks gotten flat tires is due to how the stalled trucks caused those who lived nearby to rely on the pushcart vendors for their errands.
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* DartboardOfHate: Frank the Flower has a crocheted dartboard with pictures of trucks in his cell, with knitting needles substituting for darts.
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* FruitCart: Lots, given the setting, and lots of plowing through them, again given the setting. At the end of the book, about two hundred pushcarts of all varieties were blocking the street as a protest to try to end the titular "war". A truck driver who had a grudge against one of the vendors deliberately drove through the blockade. Then, for bonus points, a pushcart axle went through his windshield and he lost control and plowed into a cafeteria window.
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* FruitCart: Lots, given the setting, and lots of plowing through them, again given the setting. At the end of the book, about two hundred pushcarts of all varieties were are blocking the street as a protest to try to end the titular "war". A truck driver who had has a grudge against one of the vendors deliberately drove drives through the blockade. Then, for bonus points, a pushcart axle went goes through his windshield and he lost loses control and plowed plows into a cafeteria window.
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* WholePlotReference: The book is a satirical interpretation of the Revolutionary War, with the pushcarts as the colonies and the trucks as the British.
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* BigBadassRig: The truck companies have three sizes of cars: the smallest (about the size of trucks today), all the way up to Mighty Mammoths, Ten-Ton Tigers and Leaping Lemas.
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* BigBadassRig: The truck companies have three sizes of cars: trucks: the smallest (about the size of trucks today), all the way up to Mighty Mammoths, Ten-Ton Tigers and Leaping Lemas.
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A satirical YoungAdult novel, told in the style of a FauxDocumentary, by Jean Merrill, about the "war" between trucking companies who want the streets of New York City to themselves, and the pushcart owners themselves, owners, who come up with a plan to shoot the trucks' tires with peashooters, proving who is really destroying traffic. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity]], involving a botched photography contest, a tax on tacks, a mediocre student in secretarial school, gangs of children, a bulletproof Italian car and a movie star named Wenda Gambling, ensues.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Large corporations in New York City pushing small businesses out of work so they can become "too big to fail," met by ragtag resistance? TonyKushner, the writer of ''AngelsInAmerica'', claimed that the novel [[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/jean-merrill-childrens-book-writer-dies-at-89.html predicted the events of Occupy Wall Street]] several decades in advance.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Large corporations in New York City pushing small businesses out of work so they can become "too big to fail," met by ragtag resistance? TonyKushner, the writer of ''AngelsInAmerica'', ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'', claimed that the novel [[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/jean-merrill-childrens-book-writer-dies-at-89.html predicted the events of Occupy Wall Street]] several decades in advance.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: The mayor who's in the trucking companies' pocket tries convincing everyone not to oppose the trucks by stating that they stood for progress and also delivered a lot of good things like peanut butter. So if you were against the trucks, you were against progress. You might even be against peanut butter. And [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous no decent person could be against peanut butter!]]
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* PopTheTires: The pushcarters get revenge on trucks by using pea-shooters to shoot pins at their tires. Although they aim at parked/stuck-in-traffic trucks to keep them stopped; they avoid shooting at people or deliberately causing an accident.
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* CoolOldLady: General Anna, who pops the truck tires by hand and is remarkably successful, thanks to looking like a harmless granny who's just looking for something that fell on the ground.
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* TakingTheHeat: Frank the Flower is caught shooting at tires, and claims he shot all 18,991 of the trucks himself [[RefugeInAudacity because he's a crackpot]]. It actually works.
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* TakingTheHeat: Frank the Flower is caught shooting at tires, and in order to protect the rest of the pushcart owners claims he shot all 18,991 of the downed trucks himself [[RefugeInAudacity because he's a crackpot]]. It actually works.
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* GoKartingWithBowser: The Big Three concoct a plot to assassinate Maxie Hammerman, the Pushcart King. Maxie gets word of this, and brings the Police Commissioner to their secret poker and/or plotting meeting. At the meeting, he tells the Commissioner that while he and the Big Three have their differences, they still get together every so often for a friendly gambling match. The Big Three quickly figure out what he's doing, but they can't do anything with the Commissioner right there. Maxie ends up winning a lot of their money, as well as their bulletproof Italian car.
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* GoKartingWithBowser: The Big Three concoct a plot to assassinate Maxie Hammerman, the Pushcart King. Maxie gets word of this, and brings the Police Commissioner to their secret poker and/or plotting meeting. At the meeting, he tells the Commissioner that while he and the Big Three have their differences, they still get together every so often for a friendly gambling match. The Big Three quickly figure out what he's doing, but they can't do anything with the Commissioner right there. Maxie ends up winning a lot of their money, as well as their the bulletproof Italian car.car they were going to use for the job.
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* BigBadassRig: The truck companies have three sizes of cars: the smallest (about the size of trucks today), all the way up to Mighty Mammoths, Ten-Ton Tigers and Leaping Lemas.
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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Played for laughs. After the pushcart vendors use their pea shooters to take out the tires of the large trucks, they listen to a news report which details the outcome. The report includes a woman claiming to have been hit by one of the pea shooters. Maxie asks the group "Who missed?" Harry the Hot Dog says indignantly that he didn't miss, but the lady had insulted his hot dogs, and he couldn't resist.
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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Large corporations in New York City pushing small businesses out of work so they can become "too big to fail," met by ragtag resistance? TonyKushner, the writer of ''AngelsInAmerica'', claimed that the novel [[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/jean-merrill-childrens-book-writer-dies-at-89.html predicted the events of OccupyWallStreet]] several decades in advance.
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* CorruptPolitican: Mayor Emmett P. Cudd.
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* CorruptPolitican: CorruptPolitician: Mayor Emmett P. Cudd.
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''It's not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts.''
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''It's not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts.''
A satirical YoungAdult novel, told in the style of a FauxDocumentary, by Jean Merrill, about the "war" between trucking companies who want the streets of New York City to themselves, and the pushcart owners themselves, who come up with a plan to shoot the trucks' tires with peashooters, proving who is really destroying traffic. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity]], involving a botched photography contest, a tax on tacks, a mediocre student in secretarial school, gangs of children, a bulletproof Italian car and a movie star named Wenda Gambling, ensues.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* CorruptPolitican: Mayor Emmett P. Cudd.
* CreatorCameo: Jean Merrill is one of the people who wrote letters to the editor in the story.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Large corporations in New York City pushing small businesses out of work so they can become "too big to fail," met by ragtag resistance? TonyKushner, the writer of ''AngelsInAmerica'', claimed that the novel [[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/jean-merrill-childrens-book-writer-dies-at-89.html predicted the events of OccupyWallStreet]] several decades in advance.
* FiveTokenBand: Justified -- many of the pushcart owners are recent immigrants who would naturally have a bigger stake in the war.
* GoKartingWithBowser: The Big Three concoct a plot to assassinate Maxie Hammerman, the Pushcart King. Maxie gets word of this, and brings the Police Commissioner to their secret poker and/or plotting meeting. At the meeting, he tells the Commissioner that while he and the Big Three have their differences, they still get together every so often for a friendly gambling match. The Big Three quickly figure out what he's doing, but they can't do anything with the Commissioner right there. Maxie ends up winning a lot of their money, as well as their bulletproof Italian car.
* TakingTheHeat: Frank the Flower is caught shooting at tires, and claims he shot all 18,991 of the trucks himself [[RefugeInAudacity because he's a crackpot]]. It actually works.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: After its initial press run, later editions have bumped up the date of the book from 1976 to 1986, 1998, and now 2029.
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A satirical YoungAdult novel, told in the style of a FauxDocumentary, by Jean Merrill, about the "war" between trucking companies who want the streets of New York City to themselves, and the pushcart owners themselves, who come up with a plan to shoot the trucks' tires with peashooters, proving who is really destroying traffic. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity]], involving a botched photography contest, a tax on tacks, a mediocre student in secretarial school, gangs of children, a bulletproof Italian car and a movie star named Wenda Gambling, ensues.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* CorruptPolitican: Mayor Emmett P. Cudd.
* CreatorCameo: Jean Merrill is one of the people who wrote letters to the editor in the story.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Large corporations in New York City pushing small businesses out of work so they can become "too big to fail," met by ragtag resistance? TonyKushner, the writer of ''AngelsInAmerica'', claimed that the novel [[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/jean-merrill-childrens-book-writer-dies-at-89.html predicted the events of OccupyWallStreet]] several decades in advance.
* FiveTokenBand: Justified -- many of the pushcart owners are recent immigrants who would naturally have a bigger stake in the war.
* GoKartingWithBowser: The Big Three concoct a plot to assassinate Maxie Hammerman, the Pushcart King. Maxie gets word of this, and brings the Police Commissioner to their secret poker and/or plotting meeting. At the meeting, he tells the Commissioner that while he and the Big Three have their differences, they still get together every so often for a friendly gambling match. The Big Three quickly figure out what he's doing, but they can't do anything with the Commissioner right there. Maxie ends up winning a lot of their money, as well as their bulletproof Italian car.
* TakingTheHeat: Frank the Flower is caught shooting at tires, and claims he shot all 18,991 of the trucks himself [[RefugeInAudacity because he's a crackpot]]. It actually works.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: After its initial press run, later editions have bumped up the date of the book from 1976 to 1986, 1998, and now 2029.
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