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...women, who are credited with having the shapeliest legs in the world, last week faced the horrifying knowledge that soon they would have to go silk-stockingless. Raw-silk imports from Japan had ended. 0PM had snatched up all available stocks (see p. 57). There was just no more silk for stockings...
Meanwhile, female workers in a large Derbyshire plant petitioned the directors to let them go stockingless -hitherto considered "not done" in the shires - and promised if this plea was granted to put $5,000 yearly of "stocking money" into national savings. That the Government must use drastic means to keep exports as high as possible was evident from the latest British trade figures released last week. These showed September 1940 exports were valued at ?31,000,000 ($124,000,000) and imports at ?80,000,000 ($320,000,000); whereas the figures for September 1939 were: exports...