Word: inked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years in boxing's big time (ten years as heavyweight champion) Joe has grossed $2,815,000. Taxes have taken a lot, but so has his investing: everything he has touched (notable exceptions: his annuity and three Chicago apartment houses) seemed to turn to red ink. Among others, there was the Brown Bomber softball team ($30,000 loss), a Detroit restaurant called the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack (about $15,000), a Michigan dude ranch ($25,000), and his flyer last fall in West Coast pro football ($7,500). He gets about 350 fan letters a week, mostly from...
...drawings for the murals told Orozco's story of work, sweat and enormous care. Many of them-studies of arms, legs, torsos-were smeared with dirt, spotted with ink and paint, creased from being folded and carried for weeks in his overall pockets. He had grouped them so that even laymen could trace the evolution from first idea to finished masterpiece. A hand from one corner of a large mural might first have been drawn in many ways, now as a fist, then open; first supplicating, then grasping. No one could say of Orozco that he had failed...
...statement, few would quarrel. What made it craziest was the fact that nothing could stop people from buying ball-points by the thousands, despite the fact that they 1) often failed to work (Reynolds alone got back 104,643 defective pens in his first eight months) or 2) oozed ink all over hands and paper. The ink in some pens even fermented, and blew the balls right out of the pens. But buyers kept right on coming. Said one bemused pen man: "They're like horse players. They figure they can beat the odds-and get one that works...
PARIS, February 10--The Allies signed peace treaties today with Italy and four other German satellites in a historymaking ceremony, but the ink was scarcely dry before violence flared in Rome and in Pola, Italian naval base coded to Yugoslavia...
...year see any realization of the bright, Cellophaned dreams that had been projected for it. Almost everything that was made had a prewar look. Even the Air Age, which alone got a wing through the door, failed to come through. U.S. planes circled the globe-and brought back red ink for most of the companies that flew them. Typical of the year's disappointment were the millions of ball-point pens, all of which looked like the very latest thing, but many of which would not write...