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Rubber Stamp. Brooklyn's Everprint Products, Inc. has put on sale a self-contained rubber stamp that carries its own ink supply good for 100,000 impressions. The padless stamp is available for standard purposes, e.g., "Paid," "Special Delivery," "Fragile," but can also be custom-made for signatures. Price: $1 for stock stamps, $2 for custom stamps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 11, 1955 | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...months through nine votes of confidence (winning margin only last week: 67 votes) despite his shaky Christian Democrat coalition, slim margin and the devious opposition of party Secretary-General Amintore Fanfani. After attending a Commons session in London this year, Scelba, who must contend with tossed insults, ink pots and punches in Italy's Chamber of Deputies, sighed and said of Britain's Parliament: "It's like a family gathering!" Under his administration, Italy ratified the Western defense treaties for German rearmament, took part in the Trieste settlement, firmly aligned itself with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE IRON SICILIAN | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Mar. 21, 1955 | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...thought printmaking and even print buying beneath their dignity. Famed for his woodcuts of Yoshiwara girls, Koryusai did equally well with more imaginative pictures of birds and animals. His Phoenix Bird (above at right) is notable for its delicacy and restraint, makes elaborate use of embossing, i.e., printing without ink, for plumage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: OUT OF THE FLOATING WORLD | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Last week on Valentine's Day, instead of scrapping, the two companies kissed and made up. To avoid the expense and confusion of a long patent battle, Scripto and Parker signed an agreement (in ink) that will allow them to use each other's formulas for a royalty. Scripto, as it has previously, will concentrate on the low-priced field; Parker will stick to the higher-priced pencil. Both companies will use Parker's Liquid Lead name, hoping that the agreement will discourage the kind of fly-by-night competition that almost ruined the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pencil Pact | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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