Solemnly the Soviet Ministry of Light Industry announced last week "the discovery that excellent felt can be made from human hair." Barbers throughout the Soviet Union were urged to vie with each other in "comradely competition" to collect hair and give it to the State. Leaders in the contest were promised as a reward free trips to the Soviet Riviera for vacations in former tsarist palaces.
Impatient to get hair and start making felt at once, the Ministry of Light Industry dispatched a special barbers & felters shock brigade to Gorki (once Nizhni Novgorod), seat...
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