Word: bloomfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northeast corner cf Nebraska, on the end of a branch-line railroad, is the town of Bloomfield. For 28 months the citizens of Bloomfield have been doing a strange thing. Last week someone took the trouble to tell the New York Times about this thing in Bloomfield and the town became suddenly and widely known outside of Nebraska...
...Heiress, Bloomfield drygoods merchant, is generally given credit for thinking up the plan. He organized and became president of the Bloomfield Retail Merchants Association. During his regime the Bloomfield Monitor of Feb. 23, 1928 carried a memorable proclamation by the merchants: No more retail credit would be given in Bloomfield after April 1. Any member of the Association caught extending credit would be fined $100. Twenty-two Bloomfield businesses backed the scheme...
...towns to go shopping, and a few residents even moved out. But this has stopped. Says Dr. Paul B. Lonergan, now president of the Association: "It rid the town of its God-given deadbeats." He is a strong booster of the plan because after two years of practice in Bloomfield he had lost $2,200 through bad debts...
...Bloomfield barbers and cinemas suffered a good deal at first because people were so hard-up for cash they had no luxury-funds left. But this condition remedied itself as prosperity...
Practically the only exceptions to the rule are the garages, where a car may still be bought on partial payments if the security looks very sound. Otherwise the adherence is firm and no $100 fine for violation has ever been imposed. The two dentists and three doctors of Bloomfield collect cash each visit (they also do charity work...