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Transformation. The pull of Bootstrap has transformed Puerto Rican life; the dejection of the past is lost in new pride. A case in point is Salinas, on the south coast, once a drowsy and impoverished sugar town. In 1952 Paper-Mate opened a ballpoint-pen plant there, hired 400 workers, three-fourths of them women who had never worked before, and began to sprinkle a payroll of $1,250,000 a year over the town. As almost the first result, a jewelry store opened to sell the gold watches Puerto Ricans admire. A market soon developed for used cars, furniture...
...contents and remarked, "I'm afraid most of these things are for boys." (Actually, many of them are for the President, e.g., half a dozen bottles of assorted potions and pills.) But he found an 1890 (the year of his birth) silver dollar and a white ballpoint pen for the girl, and a penknife for her eleven-year-old brother. As the other people who were promoting the cause filed out of the room, the President and the little girl were still rummaging happily in the big drawer...
While he ran his San Francisco business with one hand, Frawley began to sell ballpoint pens, made by a Los Angeles aircraft-parts manufacturer, with the other. Before long, the manufacturer could not keep up with sales of the inexpensive (97?) pen, which wrote well and did not leak. Frawley bought him out for $18,000, rented a factory for $450 a month and started manufacturing Paper-Mate pens. To solve the problem of fading and transferable ink, he used a new ink that a Hungarian chemist mixed in a makeshift home lab. Frawley's first selling coup...
...BALLPOINT PENS will be tested by the Post Office Department to replace the scratchy, ink-spilling nib pens. The department has shipped out 20,000 Scriptos, will chain them to desks in 17 cities, e.g., Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, use no chains in Boston, Pittsburgh, Detroit. Whether post offices adopt ballpoints depends on 1) how the pens stand up, 2) how many are stolen...
They were obviously energetic. In fact, they were determined. When they swept through the dining room door, the one in blue tweed had a card table tucked under one arm, a bunch of placards under the other, and a ballpoint pen in each hand. His friend were a dark brown jacket, glasses, and a briefcase. He walked very fast...