Crossword-Solution: DEPARTMENTSTORES 16 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

The new fashions sold in departmentstores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing piecework for a pittancein terrible sweatshops. I refused to patronize a garment industrythat exploited its desperately poor workers so heartlessly. And if that wasn’t enough to keep me out of stores, there was this aswell: I was determined to resist that shameless sister of war propaganda — the advertising industry.