Word: mimeographed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Washington was hot enough to drive a man crazy. The nerves of Representative Frank Whelchel of Gainesville, Ga. were on edge. Just to make things worse, from the room below his office in the Old House Office Building came the incessant bump and whir of mimeograph machines. Mr. Whelchel had complained about the noise more than once. In his soft Georgia accent he had told Truman Ward, who has a concession to duplicate speeches for Democrats, that one day he would "smash the machines to pieces...
...your issue of March 24 regarding Istan-sued in mimeograph form the next day to the 55 officers and 645 men of the British cruiser Orion, informing them just what happened while they were at action stations and unable to see. The Orion is commanded by Captain Geoffrey Robert Bensly Back, who issued the account, and is the flagship of Acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, second in command of the Mediterranean fleet. This ship has been many times in U.S. waters. . . In the battle ... it was one of four cruisers which . . . exposed themselves to the fire...