MILLS WORK HALF TIME
Nazis Feeling Economic Strain United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, February 7. Reports reaching London reflect the strain on the German economic system. In the textile industry, for example, independent evidence suggests that many German mills are working at only 50 per cent, of their capacity, and the depletion of cotton stocks is seen in an order compelling the use of mixtures such as cotton and spun silk and cottonised flax and artificial silk. The shortage of rubber is believed to to more serious and Germany is understood to be attempting to obtain tyres indirectly both by purchase through adjoining neutral countries, a few of which are producers, and by offering cars without tyres on specially advantageous terms to those countries on condition that they import the tyres from elsewhere.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21574, 9 February 1940, Page 7
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134MILLS WORK HALF TIME Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21574, 9 February 1940, Page 7
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