When she got her first office job in 1945, people addressed one another as Miss, Mrs ., or Mr ., the latest high-technology office tool was the Addressograph machine and bosses sent employees home early if the thermometer rose above 90 degrees because there was no air-conditioning.
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The machines used in making Addressograph plates would deboss ( pressed into the plate ) the letters into the plate resulting in a well defined printing surface resembling the typewriter fonts of the day on the reverse side that would be used to transfer the details ( usually customer addresses ) onto envelopes or form letters.
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Following Nixon's re-election in 1972, Ash was named the director of the OMB . After leaving OMB he joined Addressograph-Multigraph ( later AM International ) in an attempt to rescue the foundering duplicator company at a time when the duplication industry was shifting to photocopiers from Xerox; he resigned in 1981.
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It's believed that the size of the current payment card ( also known as CR80 size ) was created by the companies that made the equipment used to imprint and emboss the cards with-Farrington Manufacturing Company and Addressograph-Multigraph Co . Farrington was the inventor of the metal charge-plate system, but metal plates proved to be bulky and heavy for consumer use.
