I was, however, a little disappointed to hear the comment that the Society got rich out of '75.
There is some truth to that , the years prior to 1975 there was a strong surge in service work and
literature being purchased. Those were the days when all literature had to be purchased at the KH for
a set price and usually sold for a small profit. There was an ever present bout of anxiety among the JWS leading up to 1975,
so much so as to actually cause certain people to commit suicide. A culminated amount of fear was apparent, that pushed
people to go out in service ever more so. I was one of them !