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Show l False Teeth Hit By British Duty LONDON 11.P) British teeth to fit British faces is the patriotic end aimed at by a new move in the government's "Buy British" campaign. In future, Britons who equip themselves with new sets of "store" teeth will have to pay considerably con-siderably more for them unless they are made in this country. This is the result of a government order substantially increasing the already existing 20 per cent duty on artificial molars. A committee was appointed recently re-cently by the government to look into the whole question of the false teeth worn by some millions of the king's subjects. This inquiry revealed that, while the government govern-ment has taken steps to insure that more of the roast beef of Old England than in the past is really of British origin, artificial molars imported from abroad are being ;et to work on the Sunday joint in the homes of Great Britain. It has come as something of a surprise to many Britons to learn from the committee's findings that there is a real prejudice in favor of some better-quality foreign for-eign teeth imported at prices giving giv-ing a large margin of profit to the importer. |