Word: inked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Factory. Each ton of soybeans yields 30 gal. of oil and 1,600 lb. of meal. Industry takes the oil and the meal, uses one or both to make glue, paints, combs, candles, radios, buttons, axlegrease, paper size, explosives, linoleum, oilcloth, printer's ink, billiard balls, rubber substitutes, cigaret holders, Christmas tree ornaments...
...definite result will be the emergence at the end of the year, of more House committees with black instead of red ink daubed over their fingers. Another will be a less fiercely competitive and more socially desirable atmosphere for all those on pleasure bent...
...more subtle job is being done by N. W. Aver & Son. Inc. On its own hook this Philadelphia advertising agency is running every week on the cover of Printers' Ink a brief story about the accomplishments of some industry ("Mother Is On A Five-Day Week"), the importance of some business practice ("Joe And The Corporate Surplus"), the value of industrial research ("White Rats And Healthy Babies"). The copy goes in for such facts as that U. S. citizens have added more than two inches to their stature in the past 50 years, that it requires about...
...cupboard which has been used by all Presidents of the College since 1681. There are also some fine cane chairs and two excellent highboys. Another article of interest is a stand-up desk which was used by the Merrills of two generations and upon which their names, written in ink upon the inside, are still faintly visible...
...ink scroll in caricature dating from the 12th Century shows Buddhist priests in the shape of monkeys, frogs and squirrels dressed in leaves and carrying lily pads for umbrellas...