Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sweet Words. In San Francisco, newspaper readers got their first whiff of a scented sales stunt. The Emporium department store and Bombi Perfumer, Inc. had printers mix Black Magic perfume with the ink for their full-page perfume ads. Result: Emporium sold out its stock of Black Magic in less than...
...seldom had; a big part of its business was in the money-losing passenger end. Bankrupt since 1935, the New Haven had been bailed out by the war, took in so much money that it could spend $54.4 million modernizing its equipment. In December the New Haven hit black ink, and in March netted $814,027 (compared to a $233,797 deficit the previous March...
Bulldozer. "Before I'm finished with a book," says Churchill, "I go through it with a bulldozer." Phrases are burnished, whole chapters leveled and regraded. His own corrections are scribbled on galley proofs with red ink. A squad of helpers scans other proofs: Lord Ismay, his wartime military adviser, keeps an eye on military points, while others watch for grammatical or factual flubs...
...freshman described her own terrifying experience with proctors. "I took an hour exam at Harvard," she said. "May pen went dry and I tried to borrow ink from a neighbor. You'd have thought I'd thrown a bomb. The proctors all rushed in my direction, whispering and shushing with enough racket to disrupt the whole room for five minutes...
...famed gambling Casino felt as if someone had. For the second time in its 85 years, it was in the red. In its last fiscal year, the Casino lost some 136,000,000 francs (about $450,000 at current rates), almost twice as much as in its other red-ink year...