Word: stockingless
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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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...