RUN ON HAIRPINS
SOAIIK CAUSED.BY AN UNFOUNDED ETJMOim, At 5 o'clock one evening, in a hairdresser's salooji do luxe near Piccadilly, the- coiffeur was putting {lie finishing touches td a. triumph of waving. "1 think I'll take some hairpins with mo," said his patron. ,"About a gross will you let me have?"
Tho hairdresser mado a gesture of despair. "Madam, it is impossible to sell you even one paoket," he declared. "They are all gone, and I cannot get more, till the new year. Oh, this terrible rush for hairpins'."
Four days previously a rumour had gained currency that in order to use tho metal for war purposes the Ministry of Munitions intended to prohibit tho manufacture of hairpins. The news spread like an announcement of a sale of frocks at less than cost price and produced much tho same rush. There was a hairpin panic, and the climax came yesterday, when distracted women appealed in vain for hairpins. Practically all the supplies had passed into private hoarding. Subsequent inquiries showed that the trade''had heard nothing of the alleged prohibition and that tho Ministry of Munitions had not made any proclamation on the subject.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 3
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194RUN ON HAIRPINS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3022, 8 March 1917, Page 3
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