Word: thrifting
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Never in all the long history of charity-operated thrift shops had it been like this...
...Washington, D.C. the Thrift Shop, run by six charity organizations, is besieged by people who want old typewriters, sewing machines, refrigerators and clocks. Government workers, patent attorneys, and Blue Bookers comb through the shop's stock, hoping to strike gold (an electric fan or a flatiron...
...Seattle the Orthopedic Thrift Shop, accustomed for years to handling a few Indians at berry-picking time, or Russian sailors laid over in port, is selling all the shoes it can get to war workers...
...bluntly to a Cincinnati conference of the Ohio American Legion. In trying to answer it himself, hardheaded Mr. Hook, onetime president of the National Association of Manufacturers, brought forth no alchemical formula for postwar prosperity. He still remembers too well his first job at $2 a week, the pinchfist thrift he learned when he had to note down in a little black book every penny he spent. Now Armco's president thinks it is time for other black books, for more old-fashioned thrift...
...Therefore, the formula for the conversion of postwar production plans from paper to payrolls is expressed in two words-Thrift...