Word: microfilmed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department dispatches; four were handwritten memoranda (three in the handwriting of Alger Hiss-see cut-a fact which Hiss has not denied, though he denied giving them to Chambers). The "pumpkin papers" are the second part of the cache. This consisted of three metal capsules containing five rolls of microfilm, of which two rolls were developed and three undeveloped (one of the undeveloped rolls was light-struck). These were taken out of Chambers' pumpkin by House committee investigators on the night of Dec. 2. Chambers had put them there only that morning...
Found: $250,000. John Jacobs' first reform was to throw out thousands of obsolete books that were jamming his shelves (sample: a 1915 pamphlet on The Care of Teeth), and he soon had gotten rid of more books than he added. He streamlined every branch, put a new microfilm filing system into the main building, built new reading rooms, demanded-and got-a tripled library budget. He found a deposit of $250,000 that had been willed to the library and never used. He built two new branch libraries, one of them the first to be built...
...traveling sign that girdles its old wedge-shaped building). Its present home is half a block away on West 43rd Street, with a new eleven-story annex that breaks through to 44th. This week it will open a fancy information center, where readers may pore over bound volumes and Microfilm editions of the Times that go back...
Frankfurt is windowless, roofless, and jammed to the bombed-out rafters. It has almost no paper or pencils, let alone books. Forewarned, the "little University's" faculty shipped provisions ahead (among the items: a Friden calculating machine, thousands of frames of microfilm, the poetry of W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot...
...delegates had set up pilot educational projects in illiterate regions; they had arranged world music libraries, microfilm exchanges of important books, recorded lectures from rich universities for poor universities, a science center in Paris...