Word: mimeograph
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...major and a lieutenant colonel, armed with a mimeograph of the Presidential order directing the Army to seize all U.S. railroads, walked into Union Pacific's towering Omaha headquarters building at 8 o'clock one morning last week. They took an elevator to the 12th-floor executive offices, began knocking at doors. At last they came to the office of tough little Vice President G. F. Ashby. He grinned and guessed...
...larger units employ German-made artillery and tanks. Scarce items-medicines, winter clothes, shoes-are supplied by Red Army planes and parachutes. An air shuttle service flies doctors and Army officers into guerrilla territory, flies the wounded out. The bigger "armies" operate their own bakeries, hospitals, community bathhouses. Many mimeograph and distribute their own newspapers...
Where the mimeograph as we know...
...long illness in 1940. At first he made just one weekly copy of his four-page tabloid, printing it by hand in pencil. This year he began to dream of expanding, printed a suggestive notice on Page Two: "Washington, Sept. 14-For his birthday and Christmas, Alvin wants a mimeograph duplicator. . . ." Later Alvin roared gleefully to press with a Monday "extra" proclaiming: A. w. HAS DUPLICATOR-His three older sisters (he has four sisters and two brothers...
...defunct forms would have cost one industry alone 400,000 man-hours a year; it would have cost the Government 100,000 more man-hours. As for the "bootleggers," the committee wryly reported that they had been "eliminated" by the beautifully simple "expedient of taking errant mimeograph machines into custody, and providing that no financial reimbursement be allowed for printing . . . or sending unauthorized data requests...