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"A biographer of Secretary of War Baker describes how the secretary went down to the cellar of the War Department one day and found the corridors stacked with typewriters from floor to ceiling. The adjutant general, Baker learned, had tried to purchase every available typewriter in the United States, fearing that, otherwise, the surgeon general, the Treasury Department or the navy would have bought them all." - Ron Scheffer, America in the Great War. The AG in question should have been Henry P.McCain :) 94.29.8.145 (talk) 00:55, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]