Changed dramatically over the years. We may nevertheless find instructive some of the experiences of the early staff. Beyond the first years of the staff, the Research Task was more difficult. For my paper today, i was helped with some Key Developments that took place during the summer of 1927 when congress was out of session, ways and means and the first jtc chairman green was in iowa, and the small staff was in d. C. As a result, important issues were discussed by correspondence that has been preserved in the archives. Once the staff is established, more communication seems to occur within the staff, rather than with outsiders. And preservation of that information is much more haphazard. Some internal memos have no names or dates on them, and their importance is very hard to determine. The paper trail gets harder as the size of the staff grows, and some information is not memorialized at all. An additional difficulty, unless Joe Thorndike has worked out a special arrangement with the