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A member discusses the spiritual significance of supporting ourselves

As a fledgling fellowship, our founders were eagerly looking for any way to fund our endeavor. Hope was our book would become a best-seller returning huge profits to the stockholders. Yes they had sold stock in “Works Publishing” to fund the printing of our beloved Big Book. It was not selling. On February 8, 1940, at the exclusive Union Club in New York City, a meeting was arranged with the Rockefellers and seventy-five of their associates in hopes of obtaining a large sum of money to underwrite our now successful attempts to help drunks. Those hopes were dashed when Nelson... Login to read more
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