Word: inking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week six beige-colored gentlemen assembled in the White House offices to see a more important endorsement put upon their Constitution. President Roosevelt, with Secretary of War Dern at his right and Manuel Quezon (probably first President of the Philippine Commonwealth) at his left, squiggled his name in ordinary ink to a document certifying that the Constitution complies with U. S. demands...
...What Dr. Starkey found at Lachish last week were twelve scraps of pottery, apparently from the archives of the city, dating from the time of the Book of Kings and containing the names of many a person mentioned therein. Amazingly, the potsherds seemed to be inscribed in ink. Even more amazingly, they were written in ancient Hebrew-first important ones yet discovered in that tongue, which was outmoded even in the time of Christ, who spoke Aramaic. Some words on the 2,500-year-old potsherds were spelled exactly as they are in the Masoretic Text (present-day Hebrew Scriptures...
...system 14 over Columbia Broadcasting System.† Its radio accounts included Bayer's Aspirin, Ovaltine, College Inn Food Products. Nearly tied with Blackett was the leader for the two previous years, J. Walter Thompson, with accounts like Standard Brands (Chase & Sanborn, Fleischmann), Cutex, Carter's Ink, Eastman Kodak, Kraft-Phenix Cheese. Third with a radio budget of $2,900,000 was Lord & Thomas whose best account is American Tobacco (Lucky Strikes...
...There were many attempts to make a fountain pen prior to Mr. Waterman's invention. It is not known who first conceived the idea of a fountain pen or who first attempted to make one. A crude fountain pen was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii and other ink-containing instruments were known to be in the possession of King Louis XIV of France and Thomas Jefferson. In this country alone several hundred patents for "fountain pens" were issued prior to Mr. Waterman's patent. None of these early pens was really satisfactory and, therefore, Mr. Waterman...
...Carl Anderson wanted to learn to draw. Because the only school he could find that specifically advertised courses in pen-&-ink work was the Pennsylvania Museum & School of Industrial Art, he went there. His first job was on the defunct Philadelphia Times at $12 a week. Later a bright young editor named Brisbane hired him for Pulitzer's New York World, where he did a Sunday page about "The Filipino & The Chick." When Hearst, the newcomer, began raiding Pulitzer's staff, Anderson joined the parade to higher wages, joined Hearst's Journal where he drew "Raffles & Bunny...