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   Louis Epstein to All   
   OT:Paper Procurement   
   18 Aug 25 02:45:57   
   
   From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   Unlike Stephen King and the late Peter David,   
   since childhood I have always preferred and   
   insisted upon erasable typing paper,which as   
   far as I can tell is no longer manufactured.   
      
   I actually signed up to buy through Ebay (I   
   decline to use their stylized anomalous capitalization)   
   in order to get some,and after delivery hiccups   
   caused by their database thinking they knew better   
   than I do what my ZIP+4 is based on the address   
   variant I tried to use,I have now taken possession   
   of over a thousand sheets after having just about   
   run out.   
      
   The sheets themselves may be fifty years old,   
   though the packages I got are mostly never-opened;   
   they say they are from the Eaton Paper division of   
   Textron,and Textron bought Eaton's then-parent Gorham   
   in 1967 and renamed the division Sheaffer Eaton when   
   they bought the Sheaffer pen company in 1976.   
      
   (Some other packages available online are attributed   
   to Sheaffer Eaton,and the Eaton paper factory in   
   Pittsfield was shut just before Textron sold Sheaffer   
   Eaton to Gefinor in 1987,which has since sold it in   
   pieces).   
      
   Now I can use my typewriter and know I can erase   
   mistakes again!!   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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