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'IT'S A BARGAIN MA'AM'

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Wise buying in wartime
A visit with a shopping-basket to a typical market in the South of England
This object-lesson in how to buy food in wartime is to be recorded and broadcast again next week (on Friday, August 23) at 10.15 a.m., so that as many housewives as possible can hear it. If everybody who buys food used more discrimination, the food problem 'would be greatly eased.

Source: Radio Times

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