safe to say that the volume of work turned out by the operators in the government service during the war would have been about one-half of what was actually accomplished. That, of course, is only one phase of it, because the advance made in the teaching of typewriting has benefited the entire world of business to an incalculable extent.
After a little while there came, through the Business Shows, the typewriting speed contests. Gradually, the records of the "champions" went up to about eighty or ninety words a minute. With each contest there was an advance of just a few words a minute. At that time the teacher who would argue that it was possible to reach one hundred words a minute on the typewriter was an exceedingly optimistic individual. I remember that the ultimate speed to be attained by the champions was a matter of keen discussion, and that there was a
