IT'S THE SAME IN AMERICA!
F the observations made in Los Angeles by Beau Sheil, deputyController of the CBS, are anything to go by, New Zealand women have nothing to complain about in the shortage of silk stockings. Since Japan’s entry into Indo-China and America’s immediate economic sanctions against her, American women have been grappling with a shortage very nearly as acute, Mr. Sheil was in Los Angeles the day Japanese assets were frozen. One result was that _ several freighters, one carrying well over a million dollars’s worth of raw silk, turned back without entering port, but the most immediate repercussion was a rush for silk stockings. Within a few hours it was almost impossible to purchase a single pait in the whole of Los Angeles. Apparently many women who could afford to were buying up
stockings in large numbers, An executive of one large firm told Mr, Sheil that Claudette Colbert, the film star, had asked him to resetve 250 dozen pairs of silk stockings for her.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 114, 29 August 1941, Page 48
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168IT'S THE SAME IN AMERICA! New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 114, 29 August 1941, Page 48
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