EVE’S PINS
GREAT,SAVING IN BRITAIN. BIG QUANTITIES SHIPPED OVERSEAS. Before the war the women of Britain were squandering pins at the rate of 5,350,000,000 a year. Now they face a pin famine. For the pin manufacturers, with limited demands from the Government for such State departments as the Stationery Office, and administrative departments. has also to push its exports. In 1940 Eve, used to wasting pins, had to curb her extravagance and keep herself together with a mere 2,500 million of them. The result is a real pin famine. While Adam is finding to his consternation that razor blades, once thick as leaves in Vallambrosa, are almost 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 Britain, is considerable. In 1940, despite blitz conditions, the makers shipped £165,000 worth of them overseas.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 7
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160EVE’S PINS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 7
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