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Wartime production quotas and historical notes in brief
The War Production Board in 1944 authorized 50 000 bathtubs and 2 000 000 electric irons. Bathtubs limited to war housing. irons to be sold to the public unrationed. The item also recalls Frances Stewart as Britannia on the first copper halfpenny, and traces Jewish expulsion banishments in England from Canute through Cromwell with a final unclear word Abies.
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WPB
Frances Stewart
Duchess of Richmond
Britannia
Canute
England
Cromwell