EVE’S PINS ARE RATIONED
BRSTAIN SHJPS £165,000 OVERSEAS Before the war the women of Britain were squandering pins at the rate of 5,350,000,000 a year. Now they face a pin famine. For the pin manufacturers, with limited supplies or raw materials and increased demands from the Government for such State departments as the Stationery Office, and administrative departments, has also to push its exports. In 1040 Eve, used to wasting pins, had to curb her extravagance and keep herself together with a mere 2,500 million of them. The result is a real pin famine. WliPe Adam is finding to his consternation that razor blades, once thick as leaves in Vallambrosa. are almost as rare as the onion, Eve is searching in vain for what, a year ago. was handed - across the counter to her in place of the draper’s farth;n<v—a packet of Phis. The vahie nf this trade to Britain is cons'davelde. Tn 1040, deanlte vo-t the makers shipped £165,000 worth of them overseas.
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Franklin Times, Volume XXX, Issue 91, 18 August 1941, Page 4
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164EVE’S PINS ARE RATIONED Franklin Times, Volume XXX, Issue 91, 18 August 1941, Page 4
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