This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...result that the Bureau of Statistics disbanded. Since the early years of the war the problem of paper supply has been somewhat clarified by a tremendous expansion of the industry in this country. Many newspapers and publishing houses were driven to setting up their own paper plants as a measure of self-protection. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...result that the Bureau of Statistics disbanded. Since the early years of the war the problem of paper supply has been somewhat clarified by a tremendous expansion of the industry in this country. Many newspapers and publishing houses were driven to setting up their own paper plants as a measure of self-protection. There remains, however, a paper scarcity that threatens to persist. This is due, to a small extent, at least, to the expansion of uses to which paper is being drafted. The modern uses of paper are almost legion; it would lie futile to attempt a complete enumeration. Among the most recent and striking of them, however, are paper fabrics for the manufacture of clothing, now much used in Germany; paper substitutes for jute sacking, employed in the making of sandbags for the trenches; core material for car wheels; milk bottles, lifebelts, tubing, cork, lumber, chamois fiber, flour barrels, water pails, and lifeboats. Just as its sources are many, so are the functions of paper widely varied. Carroll K. Michener. "Sir," I said one evening to Doctor Sangrado, "I call heaven to witness on the spot, that I have never saved a patient, one would think they died out of spite...". "If you will take a hint, sir," replied I, "we had better change our system."--Oil Bias. The war holds tremendous possibilities for the men and women who are available for service or who can work at home in some useful capacity. I want to say a word, not so much for those who are actually sick and disabled, as for those who for some more or less obscure reason cannot keep up with the procession of life. In these days of accomplishment there is a sharpened and painful contrast between the active and the passive, the effective and the ineffective...
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