Word: mimeograph
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...catch up. Some tell-us-everything forms "reached the dimensions of a small window shade" (at the same time that WPB prohibited the sale of wide-carriage typewriters). Worst of all, the committee found that, despite an early Nelson order allegedly limiting data requests, eager WPBureaucrats "with convenient mimeograph machines" were sending out sheaves of "bootleg" forms, not to mention countless stop-the-press telegraphic requests for information and duplicating queries from decentralized regional offices...
...wartime Washington, jostled thick with generals and job-polishers, clerks, clockwatchers and hard-working hands in the factories of Government, the mimeograph has always until now been the principal channel of communication with the people. But last week Washington saw examples of another way to marshal and move the millions-through the personal appeals and planned repetition of organized advertising...
This kind of thing, decided COMINCH Admiral Ernest J. King last week, has got to stop. By his order, the number of typewriters, mimeograph and multigraph machines throughout the Navy's operating forces will be cut 50%. By this simple expedient, the Admiral believes, men afloat will have more time to fight, or get ready for fighting...
...Gaston announced a "sweeping national campaign" for wartime prohibition. He gave alcohol a large share of the blame for the fall of France and the Pearl Harbor tragedy, concluded hopefully that "America should soon be dry again, and next time Prohibition will come to stay as a success." Congressional mimeograph machines, by courtesy of Guyer, scattered his message over...
...staff of two well-meaning assistants he found, going at Panzer tilt, eight big departments, manned by a dozen lieutenant colonels, 15 majors, ten captains, 25 lieutenants, 20 civilian writers, picture and radio editors, assorted experts of all shades, plus more than 150 clerks, typists, stenographers, mimeograph operators...