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The effort will be made to have proposals intro-

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duced by being delivered to the Chief Clerk reproduced

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immediately, even before they are formally presented so

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that copies may be in your possession when they are for-

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mally presented.

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Committees undoubtedly will have work that they

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want duplicated and want duplicated promptly. At the

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moment, there is a logjam, not because there is too much

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to be done, but because the requisite number of skilled

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persons and machinery to meet the demand is not available.

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It is hard to estimate how many copies of things

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should be made. We had 600 copies of the program printed,

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thinking that this was at least 50 per cent more than

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any reasonable demand. I think we have left something

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like 10 or 12 printed programs, and perhaps as many as

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25 or 30 irritated persons who want copies. We will have

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some additional ones printed. It was just a case of

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never anticipating that there would ever be anything

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like this demand.

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We had planned regularly to reproduce 300 copies

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of everything that comes through, so that there will be a