Word: ballpoints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Write & Light. A combination ballpoint-flashlight, made in West Germany, is being sold by Chicago's Crittenton Manufacturing Co. A flick-on switch directs a circle of light onto the writing surface, makes pen handy for use at lectures, in theaters, on night tables or as a pocket flashlight. Price...
...Gulton and diversified big ones such as Bendix, Curtiss-Wright Corp. and Detrex Chemical Industries of Detroit. Detrex, the largest U.S. maker of dry-cleaning equipment, last year sold $1,250,000 worth of ultrasonic cleaners for electric shavers, auto-engine parts, outboard motors, jewelry and the tips of ballpoint pens. One cleaner washes a cash register with 5,000 parts in 7½ minutes. Says Detrex's Chief Engineer T. J. Kearny: "Some day we'll be cleaning clothes with ultrasonic equipment...
Behind that door, black laths hung down like macabre pennants. Jagged bits of glass were yellowed by the heat. Desks were overturned, heaped with rubble. A ballpoint pen lay here, a plastic billfold embossed PONYTAIL there. Charred coats still hung on hooks. A couple of odd shoes, one a loafer, one red-strapped, lay together filled with ice from fire hoses' water. On top of one blackboard, black letters still read: COME, LITTLE LORD, HERE...
...their past was romantic. Then, in 1956, big-time oil drillers on Navajo land hit the jackpot, and the dollars began gushing in. By last week, their numbers grown to 85,000 (v. 15,000 in 1868), their treasury to $60 million, their ancient weapons supplanted by grosses of ballpoint pens, lawyers, bookkeepers, geologists, oil consultants-even a pressagent-the busy, hard-driving Navajos were pounding their chests like a lusty new nation within a nation...
...Better Ballpoint. Paper Mate brought out a ballpoint pen which writes easily on grease-smeared paper or slick surfaces that usually balk ballpoints. The pen has a new ink containing a detergent that cleanses the writing surface. Price...