TOILET RACKETEERS
“BLACK MARKET” IN BRITAIN HUGE FORTUNES BEING MADE (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 9. The “ black market" turnover in toilet preparations exceeds the industry’s prewar trade. Leading manufacturers revealed this to tlie 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 twopence to produce are sold for 3s 2d, and pots of inferior face cream, described as skin food, fetch 4s 6d to 8s Bd. Spindle oil, which is a light lubricating 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” goods under unhygienic conditions. Reputable traders say that • the racketeers convert a quota of £2OOO Into a sale of £2oo,ooo'by a simple Interpretation of the Limitation of Supplies Order For tlie toilet trade they form their own distributing company, to which they sell their goods.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25275, 12 July 1943, Page 2
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159TOILET RACKETEERS Otago Daily Times, Issue 25275, 12 July 1943, Page 2
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