MILLIONS OF PINS
GIVE UP THEIR METAL TO HAND GRENADES Britain used 1,500,000,000 fewer pins last year than in 1940, and there will be several million fewer this year: already men's new shirts have surrendered the dozen pins with which it was the quite unnecessary ritual to fasten them up. The steel and brass from which they are made are doing a more im-
portant job to-day. The steel goes into anything i'rom a hand grenade upwards; the brass becomes anything from a gas mask fastener to a Bofors cartridge. Yet one firm alone can still produce 60,000,000 pins a week, an output which before the Avar would have brought in £50,000 a year. The pin Jitself has: its war uses* The aircraft industry needs huge quantities for pinning fabric together. Britain"s Stationery Office buys very largely as do the Dominion and Colonial Governments, including the India Office.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 73, 3 July 1942, Page 2
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