Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year, Cambridge's own form of United Nations--the Window Shop--will celebrate its tenth anniversary. At the site of Longfellow's Village Blacksmithe Shop displaced persons now make and sell everything from hand molded crockery to Viennese pastry. Customer's purchases help the employees and the Shop's assistance fund, which supplies money for scholarships to college students...
Almost 150 people, including students, ordinary citizens and new Americans work in the project, either full or part-time. When a group of professors' wives started the Window Shop in 1939, the first displaced persons were already entering the country. The non-profit enterprise opened in a room above the Oxford Grille on Church Street; there the early victims of the war could work and draw a small salary...
Although the ladies originally planned only a clothing store, a number of people with other trades and crafts applied for assistance, and a gift shop was soon added. The first few months were discouraging; sometimes the $12 a week salary couldn't be paid...
...Howard Mumford Jones, who became interested in the propect in August, 1939, reorganized the Shop, and had it incorporated as a charitable trust. Then, as business began to increase, the Shop Committee found a larger establishment and moved the enterprise to Mt. Auburn Street, where it remained until...
...after their appointment, the trustees had a look at the rented Tucker plant. It looked bare as Mother Hubbard's cupboard: no workable assembly line, no jigs for mass production, no body presses. There were a few modern die presses and foundry equipment, and a snappy paint shop. In what Tucker called the "machine shop and main assembly plant," only a portable crane was visible...