100 GPO Years, 1861-1961: A History of United States Public PrintingU.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 164 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
34th Congress addition amount annual report appointed apprentices authorized awarded became Benedict bill bindery Blair & Rives bookbinders Bowman Bureau Carter cents charges commercial Committee on Printing compositors Congress Congressional Printer Congressional Record contract contractor copies cost debates December Defrees distribution Duff Green economy elected electrotype employees equipment ernment establishment Globe Government Printing Office Government publications gress H Street House increased John Joint Committee July labor Linotype machinery machines March ment million Monotype national printing office newspapers North Capitol North Capitol Street offset offset printing operation orders paper Patent percent photoengraving Planning Planning-Production plant President presses printing and binding procurement production Public Printer purchase rates received recommended reduced resolution savings Section Senate session Superintendent of Documents Tiber Creek tion Treasury type metal typesetting United volume wages warehouse Washington Washington Evening Star York
Popular passages
Page 2 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best govi mment. God keep us from both l William Waller Hening, Statutes at Large (New York, 1823), II, 511-517.
Page 103 - July 1, 1919, all printing, binding, and blank-book work for Congress, the Executive Office, the Judiciary, and every executive department, independent office, and establishment of the Government, shall be done at the GPO, except such classes of work as shall be deemed by the Joint Committee on Printing to be urgent or necessary to have done elsewhere than in the District of Columbia for the exclusive use of any field service outside of said District.
Page 84 - Resolved, That a committee of one member from each State represented in this House be appointed on the part of this House, to join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to consider and report by what token of respect and affection it may be proper for the Congress of the United States to express the deep sensibility of the nation to the event of the decease of their late President.
Page 157 - Congress each year appropriates direct to the Public Printer a working capital to which is charged the cost of printing and binding for Congress. All other Government establishments pay to the Public Printer, from appropriations under their control, the cost of printing and binding which they may order...
Page 22 - superintendent shall be a practical printer, versed in the various branches of the arts of printing and book-binding, and he shall not be interested directly or indirectly in any contract for printing for Congress or for any department or bureau of the government of the United States.
Page 114 - Except as hereinbefore provided, the rate of wages, including compensation for night and overtime work, for more than ten employees of the same occupation shall be determined by a conference between the Public Printer and a committee selected by the trades affected, and the rates and...
Page xi - ... limited. At length printing came. It gave ten thousand copies of any written matter quite as cheaply as ten were given before ; and consequently a thousand minds were brought into the field where there was but one before. This was a great gain — and history shows a great change corresponding to it — in point of time. I will venture to consider it the true termination of that period called "the dark ages.
Page 44 - ... the Hoe press being wholly dispensed with. The substitution of an automatic system of feeding for hand-feeding, which is one of the greatest economical advantages of this press, has been effected by introducing the paper into the machine, after it has been subjected to a moistening operation, by passing through a shower of fine spray, in the form of an endless roll. A single roll will contain several thousand sheets, and the printing operation, including the cutting of the paper into proper lengths,...
Page 157 - Washington, during the time for which they shall hold their respective offices; three members of the Senate, and three members of the House of Representatives...
Page 162 - Printing shall have power to adopt such measures as may be deemed necessary to remedy any neglect or delay in the execution of the public printing...