The great Spanish Flu epidemic led to some authoritarian governors to close down businesses to avoid infections. But these were Americans and they refused to comply.
Famous Brooklyn Barber Guiseppi Conforti invented the maxi shaver that shaved ten people at once. Unfortunately it was not perfected and he managed to cut the throats of six customers at once.
His business could not survive this terrible accident so he went to work for his cousin Albert Anastasia. Who was very fond of barbershops. With similar results.
(Small Businesses That Didn't Quite Cut It by Doris Kearns Goodwin)
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