That's even more anachronistic than the Belv! No, the most common machine in use throughout the Allied Forces in 1946 is (just was it was on the Allied side of the real World War II) the 1930-vintage Teletype Corporation Model 15, because it's rugged, it's reliable, and - most importantly - it's cheap.

Probably-apocryphal telecom industry legend has it that, when the early single-case teleprinter system was being developed, the president of Teletype Corp. nixed a study showing that lowercase letters were better from a readability and machine-longevity standpoint with the terse note: "It would be impossible to spell the name of the Deity properly." This was presumably not a consideration in-setting, so maybe it was just a 50-50 shot that went the wrong way. :)

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