Word: mimeographed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...