MAKING ENDS MEET
ANOTHER SOVIET SCHEME.
MAKING “SOTS FROM ONE'S HAIR
LONDON, December 24. “Making ends meet” is literally the keynote of a Soviet scheme to provideevery adult each year with a pair of felt hoots made from his own, hair, the Moscow correspondent of the “News Chronicle.”' •’ ’ The Union Rubbish Trust has baen' instructed to accumulate % January 31, 3000 tons of sweepings from barbers’ sliopr. in Moscow, Leningrad, . Kazan, Odessa and Kharkov to enable the experts of the Felt Boot Trust at Novgorod to make foot coverings from them. It is stated that 450 barber’s shops, in Moscow 'will supply 1500 tons &, year, yielding 1,500,000 pairs of boots! ■' The trust promises positions in rest t houses to those collecting the maxi iV mum quantity. r/:‘A
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1933, Page 4
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