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Wednesday, 17 August 2011

On This Day in Typewriter History (LXXXVII)

AUGUST 15
CORONA'S CONVERSION
 
In August 1944, Fortune magazine published in its "The Working Front" section a feature article about  L.C.Smith and Corona Typewriters Incorporated converting its Syracuse factory back to typewriter-making after assisting in the war effort.
Purely in the interests of recording typewriter history, we re-publish the article in full here (albeit in a slightly more sequential page order):
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2 comments:

  1. notagain18 August 2011 at 01:29

    Wow I really like that Peter Piening cover! Funny how we get introduced to other things tangentially. I will be looking into his other work.

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  2. Richard P18 August 2011 at 04:52

    Fascinating. Thanks for posting this. I've seen the cover of the magazine before, online, but hadn't read the article.

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