During the 1970 service year it was necessary for us to print in Brooklyn 109,903,090 Watchtower magazines and also 102,607,800 Awake! magazines. Magazines printed equaled 212,510,890 when combined, an increase of 15,784,650 over the total of a year ago. Every week in the year the Brooklyn printing plant publishes more than four million magazines, and that keeps twelve of our twenty-nine high-speed presses busy all the time.

The world report on the printing of the magazines has reached a new all-time peak of 177,038,027 copies of The Watchtower and 171,719,337 of Awake! The grand total of magazines printed in all printing plants during the 1970 service year was 348,757,364.