Do you realize that it was a commonplace for typists who did not have custom features on their typewriters to manually adjust the line spacing, and sometimes the font, to insert subscripts and superscripts in mathematical and chemical texts?
In the late 1960's, I worked in the computer facility of a University that did Government research.
I doubt that any memos were composed on typewriters with the kind of care that would be necessary to produce what we've seen.
Thank you for replying to one of my queries. As one who reviewed hundreds of grant applications and doctoral theses in the 1970s, I can report that the typography was exceedingly variable, but not infrequently, it measured up to anything one usually sees with word processors in the 1990s. My mention of mathematical and chemical texts was only intended to note that the advent of IBM electric typewriters generally put an end to the sort of typescripts that had been universally seen before that time when texts that required copious superscripts and subscripts -- as mathematical and chemical texts do -- had had such specialized entries inserted in handwritten form.
Memorandum re: Lincoln cover-up
To: Dan Rather
From: CBS News bigwigsContinue your search for supporting materials for the story on Abe Lincoln's [proven] use of mill-driven equipment to split rails.
We know the technology existed back then. It logically follows that "Old Abe," [the opportunistic and divisive Republican president], would have taken advantage of the technology.
It's time to expose "Honest Abe" the so-called "Railsplitter" for the liar he really was.