Word: prints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes passed over the open book and onto a little yellow card beside it. He sat down again and picked up the card. Its bright color interested his eyes more than the dull white pages of the book. Its bold black letters meant more to him than all the print of the wordy volume that lay before him. "Notice of Classification" it said on top. And then a few more lines, some printed, some typed...
Whenever we print an article like last week's outspoken cover story about General Spaatz and the progress of the North African campaign, we get a heavy mail citing various points we have made and asking "Who says...
...practice the new currency runs into dizzying complications. To get the system going, OPA had to print 150,000,000 ration books. The Government Printing Office enlisted the help of 19 printing companies. The job involved printing more stamps (30 billion-all made counterfeit-proof) than all the postage stamps issued by the U.S. in the past twelve years...
...typical veteran U.S. air-force man's career. It varied from the norm only in details. In 1899-at the age of eight-redheaded Carl Spatz (later changed to Spaatz) was the youngest linotype operator in Pennsylvania. He operated the machine in the Boyertown, Pa. print shop where his Pennsylvania Dutch father and grandfather published the Berks County Democrat. Carl had a happier time playing the guitar, which Father Spatz taught him in the evening. Father Spatz, who became a state senator, got him an appointment to West Point, so off he went in 1910, lugging his guitar...
...exceptions, many of the first U.S. wartime advertisements were compromises because advertisers were not quite sure just what they were trying to do. Firms with goods to sell wanted their products given a "war angle"; firms with no products wanted to keep their prestige intact. Some preened themselves in print, crowing ridiculously about their war roles. Some typical examples, out of hundreds...