PINS ARE RATIONED
BRITAIN SHIPS £165,000 WORTH
OVERSEAS
Before the war the women of Britain were squandering pins at llie rpte of 5,350,000,000' a year,
Now they face a pin famine.
For the pin manufacturers, with limited supplies of raw materials and increased demands from, the Government for such State departments as the Stationery Office, and administrative departments, has also *o push its exports.
In 1940 Eve, used to wasting pins, had to curb her extravagance and ■veep herself together with a mere 2,000 million of them.
The result is a real pin famine.
While Adam is finding to his consternation that razor blades, onca thick as leaves in Vallambrosa, •ilmost 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 farthing—a packet of pins.
The value of this trade to Is considerable. In 1940, -despite blitz conditions, the makers jshippe'i £165,000 worth of them overseas.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 145, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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163PINS ARE RATIONED Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 145, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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