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Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: "Herewith enclosed please find . . . "
From: "Norman Andersen" <Norm_Andersen@m...>
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 17:12:21 +0000
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How about "...and oblige." I can remember the General Passenger Agent 
dictating any number of letters and most of them ended with "and oblige."

In the Passenger Department of the Q in Chiacgo all secretaries were male 
until about 1960 or '61 or so. The secretary to the General Passenger 
Traffic Manager took dictation on one of those machines. He darn near used 
to fall asleep while taking dictation and smoking his pipe. In those days is 
was no uncommon to have the department and others wreathed in fluffy clouds 
of smoke from cigarettes, cigars and pipers! One funny incident was wheh he 
transcribed a letter one time he never looked at his typewriter output. Just 
typed it up with one or two carbon copies and an envelope. Put it on top of 
the applicable file and laid it on his bosses desk. Well, one day came a 
holler from Bill Burke, "Andy, what the #@%% is this!?" Andy ran in. He must 
have started with his fingers on the wrong typewriter keys. The letter 
looked like it was typed in code!

Norm






>From: Don Ross <don0731@g...>
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>To: BRHSlist@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Re: [BRHSlist] Re: "Herewith enclosed please find . . . "
>Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 22:49:13 -0600
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