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 well as the disabled turned attic junk into resalable 1932-styled dresses, shoes, mattresses, or even sofas. A used piano from Goodwill could be obtained for ten dollars plus three dollars for delivery. By 1932 Goodwill Industries had expanded and opened branches in about sixty cities throughout the United States.

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Scientific American (February 1932): 84-85.