Word: inked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ink & Water. The biggest burden fell on the Kansas City Star and Times, which have the biggest circulation (Times: 353,-836; Star: 363,127) through the Kansas and Missouri rural areas. The Star-Times offices were high & dry in midcity, but Publisher Roy Roberts woke up one morning to find that his ink supply was under 14 feet of water in Kansas City's flooded industrial district. By bringing ink in trucks and tank cars from St. Louis and Philadelphia, he kept the presses rolling...
...lobby, paneled in glass and wood, has a rug with little colored dots woven in. Explained the proprietor: "We've got built-in food and ink spots and cigarette burns; now we don't have to worry." In the dining room, an enormous oak pedestal will be loaded with raw steaks so that each guest can select his own and brand it with a hot iron-"R" for rare, "M" for medium, "W" for well done...
...blocky, bubbly ex-Tyrolean, Bemelmans has turned out a score of illustrated books, has won a snug niche in current popular art. His firmly funny India ink lines are backed by broad, patternmaking blobs of color that are cool as summer showers. He is like Raoul Dufy, James Thurber and Peter Arno tossed into salad and marinated in strong dark beer...
...City Ballet Co. finished a season (February-March 1951) in the black. Chairman Morton Baum called his executive committee together, told the good news and got approval for an extra season. This week, at Manhattan's City Center, the ballet was ending its three-week special run. Red ink was dripping into the ledgers again, but balletomanes had had a look at three new works...
...ink on the decision was barely dry when a rash of price-cutting began on fair-traded items. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. announced its cuts in full-page newspaper ads: "Now you can buy 5,978 'price-fixed' items at less than price-fixed prices -at Macy's." In New Jersey, Kings Super Markets slashed prices on brand products as much as 30% and promised to cut more. Grocer Charlie Hawkins of Stockton, Calif., a long-standing fair-trade enemy, chalked up his new prices, said: "The little independent guy will now be able...