Word: ink
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Watts ("Bill") Chaplin, who put his Ethiopian war observations into a book called Blood and Ink and who learned about sit-down strikes in France last year, is covering the Labor front for Hearst's Universal Service. His itinerary since January: Flint, Detroit, Lansing, Pontiac, Oshawa (Canada), Pittsburgh, South Chicago, Johnstown, Youngstown. He, like many another 1937 Labor newshawk, rarely has time to use anything except airplanes. Universal's Labor specialist in Washington is handsome Eugene Kelly who turned reporter after studying for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome...
Seidman & Seidman's figures on comparative sales of different types of furniture showed that U. S. citizens were inclined to spend their first furniture money on upholstered chairs, studio couches, etc., putting makers of upholstered furniture in the black ink a year ahead of the industry as a whole. Their aggregate operating profit of 3.07% on sales in 1935 was more than doubled last year. Second best showing was made by manufacturers of novelty and specialty goods, who also made an operating profit, 2.15% in 1935, increased it to 4.86% in 1936. Laggards were the manufacturers of "case goods...
...collectively, but refused to sign anything because, they said, a contract would be followed by demands for the closed shop and the check-off of union dues. To the unions this was just a quibble. Pickets in Cleveland last week carried placards chiding the companies for refusing to buy ink. Settlement of this unsettled question may affect many a future labor crisis...
Peanuts, however, have been his prime interest. His list of peanut products includes milk, butter, cheese, coffee, pickles, shaving lotion, breakfast food, flour, soap, ink, cosmetics, a dandruff remedy. When the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill was in the making, its framers were skeptical as to the need of U. S. farmers for peanut protection. George Washington Carver appeared in Washington, talked for an hour and 45 minutes to the Congressmen. When the bill passed a peanut tariff was in it. In recent years he has tried out peanut oil as a remedy for infantile paralysis, rubbing it into withered muscles...
Tears mixed with ink often result in a sticky substance resembling treacle. Though the formula would not be recognized by a chemist, it is well known to some popular writers. And there is nothing so pleasing to some tastes as a good mouthful of treacle. Gene Stratton Porter was an expert at this mixture; so is A. S. M. Hutchinson. In Sorrel and Son Warwick Deeping had the formula just about right, but last week his latest novel showed that even specialists in sad-gladness cannot always hit the proper ratio, that too many sobs spoil the ink. Only...