Word: inks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many days after exams last June, a wayward Crimeditor left his typewriters and yellow copy paper and sneaked into the recruiting station on Huntington Avenue. Last night, the musty smell of ink and exchanges lured him off Plympton Street into the old haunts...
...Embarrassed his Office of War Information and, his old spelling teacher by writing Generalissimo with two l's in a longhand letter transmitted to China's Chiang Kai-shek at the opening of a new radiophoto link with Chungking. OWI hastily blotted the extra l with ink eradicator. Chinese spokesmen, with traditional politeness, took the incident more calmly. They often spelled Generalissimo with two l's when using English, they said; moreover, what was the difference after it was rendered into Chinese...
...There was cause for suspicion in Alaska, with Japanese entrenched at the back door. People were writing about dangerous subjects : how to get secret ink, a radio station in the wilderness, hidden uniforms, submarine nets, the location of defense installations and troops. The FBI moved in, fast...
Last summer President Roosevelt eyed the old Oregon's 10,300 tons of metal, decreed it should be demolished for scrap. Had he ordered the wrecking of the eleven-story pile of granite, ink and eloquence that is the Journal itself, Maria Jackson would hardly have been more shocked. She complained some, but being patriotic she did not resist...
With the help of 17 paying subscribers he has slowly boosted his little paper into the profit stage, a feat to make any red-ink-stained publisher gape. Last week Alvin was grossing "about 90? a week, barely enough to buy materials...