We'll buy back your Typewriter for Uncle Sam

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Orders had to be typed. In 1943 or 1944 a Liberty ship carrying only typewriters went down in the English channel.

&gt;What&#x27;s fascinating is that Smith-Corona is still in existence today. Wikipedia provides a great overview of how they have managed to adapt through several millennia of innovation<p>Did they mean &quot;decades&quot;? (English is not my native language)

I know the article is new; but given the title is straight from the Ad it would be clearer suffixed (1942).