Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been an acrimonious week. The last hope of cooperation between the Both Congress and the President seemed to have run out. Harry Truman had already vetoed five bills. Early in the week he had signed the rent-control bill (TIME, July 7), but with gall in the ink: "I have chosen the lesser of two evils . . . this legislation marks a backward step in our efforts to protect tenants against unjustified rent increases. ... It is unthinkable that the Congress would actually take steps to make more difficult or even impossible the efficient administration of the Government's present activities relating...
...Donnelley & Sons Co., TIME Inc.'s Chicago printers, wanted to know if it would be possible to "set ink on paper by molecular vibration through a sound medium...
Other divisions of TIME Inc. also borrow him in times of crisis - such as last week's SOS from the Paris printer of one of our overseas editions for a plane-sped package of extender (ink dryer). He has even been useful in getting people to work. Recently, one of our researchers injured a kneecap and another, who had just recovered from a broken leg, offered to lend the invalid her idle crutches to come to the office on. Scorning a taxicab, Dailey strapped the crutches on either side of his motorcycle and admired the way people gaped...
...from 76,000 to 25,000, the company managed to roll with the fall. It closed seven branch plants, returned $51,750,000 worth of equipment to the Government, and ended up with a $6,060,750 net profit for 1946 (after tax carrybacks). This year in the red-ink aircraft industry, United marked its doings in black: it had a $1,431,496 profit in the first quarter...
With the first sentence of his first script, Hollenbeck started ragging the rags, especially the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram, the arch-conservative Sun and Hearst's Journal-American for "the great ink-letting which resulted from the disclosure that a number of New York City families on relief had been housed in hotels...