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Show I5riti.Ii Bachelors Outdo Women in Buying Clothes LONDON. Bachelors are the heaviest users of clothing coupons under the Eritish rationing scheme, with unmarried women running them a close second. From returns issued is-sued by the board of trade for the first 19 weeks under the rationing plan it was found that bachelors used 30 coupons and unmarried women wom-en 29. The survey shows that a majority of the people bought sensibly, and the idea that women had borrowed coupons from men has been proved wrong, as well as the idea that parents par-ents spent their coupons on their children. Eleven per cent of the men and 6 per cent of the women mostly elderlyspent eld-erlyspent no coupons. Men of 18 years and over spent 27 coupons and women of the same age spent 2G. Boys and girls between 14 and 17 years spent 27 and 25, respectively; married men and women, 26 and 24. |