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...next two years. $17.50 and a stock dividend of 150 in 1920. The present rate is $4. Typical of a big company's line are such Dixon brands as the green Anglo-Saxon, blue Rapid Writer, Thinex, black Beginners, Lumber Crayon, red-white-&-blue Uncle Sam, buff & blue Bicentennial, purple Violo...
...gone to some pains to obtain obscure likenesses. Of the issue, which ranges from 2¢ to 10¢, there are four Charles Wilson Peales, two John Trumbulls, a reproduction of the Houdon bust, the famed Gilbert Stuart ($1 bill) Athenaeum portrait, the New York Historical Society's anonymous portrait, a crayon drawing made from life by Charles B. F. Saint-Memin, a portrait by William Williams...
...drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes one-fifth (some 100,000,000 tons a year) of the nation's soft coal. Now take a red crayon and dot the Pittsburgh Area, for in many of its countless, wretched little mining communities during the past month -and particularly last week-blood flowed...
...enunciated: "The grandfather is sitting in an easy chair. The grandmother is also sitting in an easy chair." etc. Very much in the background was childlike Frau Jack's quiet husband. An active stage designer, he carried in his pocket a contract to do a series of articles, crayon portraits of U. S. gangsters for the Berlin magazine Detectif. With a sound working knowledge of grandfather sitting in his easy chair and other useful phrases, Herr Bismarck was eager last week for a personal interview with Al Capone...
...Mellon ?they were all of them to be seen last week in the library of Manhattan's fastidious Pynson Printers, most of them in chalk, Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln in lithograph. Had it not been withdrawn for reproduction on the cover of this issue of TIME, the crayon likeness of Charles Evans Hughes would also have appeared...