During a cruise in Chinese waters, marines of the United States Navy found a boot polish which shone more than usual. They told their wives about it when they went home; and a demand thereupon set in which has more than doubled the number of tins shipped from Britain to America since the war. The makers are now working to 100 per cent capacity, mainly to supply the fighting forces at home and users overseas. The British civilian himself has been rationed to one-fourth ■of his peace-time polish.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 5
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