Word: microfilmed
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...boost circulation. Asked the Examiner last week: "What are you doing to protect your precious personal papers and valuable documents in the event of atomic bombing?" Sure that few Angelenos were doing anything, the Examiner printed a coupon entitling them to get their insurance policies and other documents microfilmed at Examiner headquarters for 25?/ apiece. The Examiner promised, in addition, to deposit one copy safely in a vault in Colorado Springs. One Examiner reader was unimpressed. Said he: "To hell with my insurance policy. I wish they'd microfilm me and stow me away until...
...scene at various periods, most of them were published in Russia, and are not readily available for study. Some are not even in the largest libraries, but exist in single copies owned by people scattered throughout the world. In such cases, the Center requests the book, transfers it to microfilm when it is received and returns it to the owner. Rare books have come from such places as the Library of Congress, the West coast, New York, and Paris. The Center also subscribes to 180 magazines covering all aspects of Soviet life...
...should happen to him or his wife, Esther. In the envelope were 43 typed copies of State Department documents and four memoranda in Alger Hiss's handwriting. Several nights later, from a hollowed-out pumpkin on his farm where he had hidden them, Chambers produced five rolls of microfilm. When developed, they produced a three-ft. stack of highly confidential Government dispatches which Chambers said Hiss had given...
From 1932 to 1938, he said, he had had a regular flow of documents from Communist sympathizers not only in the Department of State but in the Bureau of Standards, the Navy and at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. He had had them photo graphed on microfilm and had turned over the films to the Soviet spy apparatus. He said he had had two sources in the State Department: one, it developed later, was Henry Julian Wadleigh; the other, he said, was Alger Hiss...
...Jenkins was sorting, indexing, and cataloguing his Monumenta Americana. When a 600-page inventory is published three months from now, historians will be able to locate material that few would ever have been able to see before, and scholars, schools and libraries can then order the documents themselves on microfilm...