Word: inked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purpose: Economy, easier handling, prevention of counterfeiting. The Treasury's annual savings: $552,520 on paper, $120,000 on ink, $1,000,000 on labor. Average span of life of old-sized bill: eight months. The Treasury's expectation for the new bill: twelve months or more. Cost of producing each bill 7/10?. Time of production: 30 days. The first set of new bills went to Secretary Mellon. To the Clerk of the House of Representatives were sent 435 new $1 bills, one for each Congressman (in exchange...
Vice President Curtis looked over President Hoover's right shoulder, watched him pick up a pen, dip it in ink, write at the bottom of the document the word "Herbert." Then he put the pen down. Speaker Longworth, on the left, watched him pick up a second pen, dip it in ink, write the word '"Hoover." Then the President looked up, smiled. He had got at last what he wanted as farm relief...
...Paris, a Mile. Louise Monpeil bade goodbye to friends, drank a "death cocktail" concocted as follows: two parts ink, one part corn remover fluid, two parts industrial alcohol, an olive. The friends gave her an emetic, reproved...
Sebastian Spering Kresge sells frying pans, false hair, gauzes, garters, hardware, hosiery, ink, jugs, jewelry, kettles, lamps, Listerine, marbles, needles, novels...
...first production, a revival of The Barker, a Broadway hit. not caring much whether they even paid expenses. They didn't. Nor did they care. They kept on, producing Mr. Morley's own play, Pleased to Meet You, reviving Broadway and The Old Soak, going into red ink but having a very pleasant time...