April 2014

Typing, Raising Cash and "Imaginary Ulcer Attacks"

A timeline of the first year and a half of the making of the Big Book

Middle of Oct., 1937
Our co-founder Bill W. travels to Akron where the group meets and approves raising funds for paid missionaries, a chain of national hospitals and the writing of a book. The Ohio members do not, however, intend to contribute any money themselves and they send Bill back to New York City to raise the money there.

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