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...Capillary Action) pen, such as writing under water. It also boasted: 1) a cartridge-type refill; 2) choice of different colored inks; 3) a higher price, $15 plus jewelry tax. Eversharp had spent $2,000,000 for research and for the North and Central American rights to the Biro pen (TIME, Aug. 21, 1944), forerunner of the present crop of pens. But what Eversharp had got for its money was not clear, as new ball pens were turned out by a handful of companies...
...antitrust laws. The two defendants, Arnold claimed, had tried to "prevent mass distribution" of the Reynolds pen until they could 1) get rid of their own obsolete stocks, and 2) produce a ballbearing pen of their own on the basis of patent rights acquired from Laszlo Joszef Biro of Argentina (TIME...
Invented by a Hungarian newsman named L. J. Biro, the Stratopen works on the same principle as a printing press. Its inked ball bearing, fed by a fine coiled tube in the barrel, rolls (instead of pours) ink onto the paper. It uses a gelatinous, instant-drying ink. One filling lasts six months...
Last week, speaking at a Manhattan banquet of the American Committee for the Settlement of Jews in Biro-Bidjan, ruddy, banjo-eyed Soviet Ambassador to the U. S. Alexander A. Troyanovsky skipped lightly across History and Political Philosophy. He quoted Abraham Lincoln as to how often one can fool all & some of the people.* He unearthed the fact that Russia's Empress Catherine II was disgusted by the American Revolution and refused to recognize the U. S. He said that the U. S. Declaration of Independence was the "first official recognition of the equality of all human beings, including...
...Said he: "This would not be discreditable if it were true. It happens not to be true. It is enough for me to say that Stalin is not a Jew, nor is Molotov, nor Voroshilov, nor Ordjonikidze, nor Mikoyan." Encouraging the banqueteers to subscribe $350,000 for Biro-Bidjan Jews, he explained that the Soviet's fee of $200 per family for setting up Jewish immigrants in Biro-Bidjan with land and equipment for farming was less than cost...