Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 11:25:51 EDT
From: BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU
Subject: Re: % % Goverment work (saying) (fwd)
From: NAME: David Bergdahl
FUNC: English
TEL: (614) 593-2783 BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]A1[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAX
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on gov't work: my father worked in Sperry Gyroscope (later absorbed by Remington
Rand) in Lake Success, L.I. during the war. For him "gov't work" was something
you were doing for yourself on company time. The phrase was supposed to evoke
wartime secrecy -- so anyone checking what you were doing wouldn't go further.
David
David Bergdahl Ohio Univ/Athens BERGDAHL[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]OUVAXA.CATS.OHIOU.EDU