BLACK MARKET GOODS
TOILET.TRADE EXPLOITED LONDON, July 9. The l! black market " turnover in toilet preparations exceeds the industry's pre-war trade. Leading manufacturers revealed this to the ' Daily Telegraph.' Rubbish is selling at fantastic prices, and manufacturers are making fortunes from (preparations which are worthless and often harmful. Boxes of powder costing two pence to produce are sold for 3s 2d, and pots of inferior face cream, described as skin food, fetch 4s 6d and 8s Bd. Spindle oil, which is a light lubreiating oil, becomes brilliantine, and inferior wax used for some floor polish becomes lipstick. About 35,000 small-scale manufacturers are estimated to be producing " black market ' snoods under unhygienic conditions. Reputable trades say that the racketeers convert a quota of 2,000 into a sale of £200,000 by a simple interpretation of the Limitation of Supplies Order. For the toilet trade they form their own distributing company, to which they sell their goods.
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Evening Star, Volume 24914, Issue 24914, 12 July 1943, Page 4
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154BLACK MARKET GOODS Evening Star, Volume 24914, Issue 24914, 12 July 1943, Page 4
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