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Many women found work as secretaries during the war. At that time, a secretary's most valued tool was her typewriter. When the U.S. government called for a typewriter drive to round up a large number of typewriters for government work, secretaries and the businesses they worked for proudly donated to the cause. Margaret Fishback wrote the following poem to support the typewriter drive. Titled "Take a Letter from Uncle Sam," the poem was published in the March 1943 issue of Independent Woman.
Dear Secretaries of the Nation:
Your middle name's Cooperation …
You've purchased bonds, you've purchased stamps,
You've sent your dream men off to camps,
And now the sacrifice supreme
Will also find you on the beam.
You'll help to win this ghastly war
By yielding one of every four
Typewriters to your Uncle Sammy.
Our soldiers, sailors...
Your middle name's Cooperation …
You've purchased bonds, you've purchased stamps,
You've sent your dream men off to camps,
And now the sacrifice supreme
Will also find you on the beam.
You'll help to win this ghastly war
By yielding one of every four
Typewriters to your Uncle Sammy.
Our soldiers, sailors...
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