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America 1930-1939: Lifestyles and Social Trends

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The motto of Buffalo Goodwill Industries, Inc., in the state of New York was "Jobs from Junk — Wages from Waste." Founded in 1920, the company, whose trucks collected around forty thousand loads of discarded material in 1930 alone, paid sixty thousand dollars in opportunity wages to one hundred or more daily workers. Skilled carpenters, clerks, and seamstresses as.....

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