Goodwill Industries Correspondence, 1936-1937 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Goodwill Industries correspondence, reports, memoranda, and publications relating chiefly to sales and promotional activities of the Goodwill Industries, Inc. in Champaign and St. Louis.  The series includes correspondence of Ross C. Adair, Executive Secretary, regarding promotional ventures and business transactions; "Goodwill Glimpses," January and February 1937; "Why I give to the Goodwill Industries;" a clipping from The Chicago Daily News, March 22, 1938 - "In Chicago's Pushcart Army;" Reader's Digest, December 1935; reports and memoranda, prepared by the Auditing Department on sales, 1936-37; weekly sales reports (1936-37), prepared by the Operating Department on branches in St. Louis and the Mississippi Valley.