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| | Government Printing Office Celebrates 144th Birthday, Pays Homage to 'an Icon' (washingtonpost.com) |
 | | GPO presented Saunders, 78, with a crystal ball, engraved with her name, as a symbol of thanks from her fellow employees, a $1,000 U.S. savings bond and a framed tribute published in the March 3 Congressional Record. |
 | | GPO produces 100 to 125 volumes per set for each session of Congress, and they are widely considered one of the government's most important publications. |
 | | Friends in her church choir told her that the Navy and GPO were hiring, and on Feb. 4, 1946, Saunders joined GPO as a junior clerk-typist in the stock section of the division of public documents. |
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