Business: 6,000,000 Catalogs

Six thousand tons of paper . . . whirling through great power presses . . . using 750 Ib. of ink an hour. More than a thousand printers . . . working night and day. Machines with great mechanical fingers sorting, gathering and binding pages into books. Four hundred artists and camera men making thousands of illustrations. . . . A great battery of 200 typewriters clicking out the true story of value you read on these pages.

Thus does Montgomery Ward & Co. tell the history of its new catalog, sent out last...

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