Show r r 1 WALTER NALTER SHEAD New GPO Business Venture WE A TE WONDER how proponents of individual free enterprise VV V V will feel about the government printing office going into the chain book store business For that's exactly what GPO wants to do open do-open open up regional book stores in various sections f the country to speed up delivery of some copies of the different books and pamphlets which it has printed and has on I sand land I Last year GPO was rated the worlds world's largest publisher and turned aver ver to the U. U S. S treasury more than three million dollars it obtained from the sale of about books and pamphlets ets Most of these books are sold by mall mail from a nickel up to p possibly a dollar a copy and consequently much of the revenue was in small coins Thousands of the small coins attached by glue or tape to letters had to be washed in gasoline to remove the stickiness Best seller according to GPO was a 15 cent booklet Care put out by the U. U S. S childrens children's bureau More than four million copies have been sold many to physicians One costly item 50 50 for 37 volumes of ot the actual record of the trial I of the major war criminals at nt is is another good seller and right now in demand is the state departments department's 1 volume of Soviet Nazi Relations It contains captured documents from the German foreign office files from 1939 |