TOYS AND THE TIMES
% MODERN DEMANDS ;* | LONDON, Dec. 3. Toy buyers for London’s largest store say that models of a balloon barrage are the most popular Christ- • j-nas toy, and that the shops are al- ■ most sold out of boxes containing • miniature Spitfire fighters, anti-air- % craft guns, altitude finders, searchlights and sound detectors.- ~
Old-fashioned red-coatcd foot scldiers and cavalrymen are seldom sought. Instead, children demand
modern tin soldiers wearing gas >• masks, air-raid wardens, decontaminf ators and fire-fighters. There are also
popular decorations tor Christmas _ and birthday cakes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20122, 16 December 1939, Page 10
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