Unsung Heroes
Unsung heries of the San Francisco Conference were the ti*anslatrors. The Charter represented a translation of 3 000 000 words into » ' Chinese, French Spanish and English. A staff of 135 translators worked around the clock seven days, a week. No meeting of a, committee or commission reported a delay for want ot' translators. American typists using special recording machines produced up to 300 words a minute while Chinese experts painting in each letter with small brushes produced up to 500 words an hour. During one day the translation section turned out 1 700,000 pages of documents on 20 electrically operated mimeograph machines.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 08, Issue 92, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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104Unsung Heroes Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 08, Issue 92, 24 July 1945, Page 5
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