The Gov't Printing Office in Wash. is busy filling an order for 15,000,000 instruction and application blanks to be used by the veterans of the world war in applying for their bonus. The blanks are being issued at the rate of 2,000,000 per day for which Uncle Sam purchased 11,000 reams of paper
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- 1924
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- Harris & Ewing
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- photograph
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