Word: inking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phantasmagoria. The fantastic pyrotechnics of colored ink and nightmare layouts with which Hearst, ever demure in appearance, staggered public attention in the next few years are still faintly reflected today in his American Weekly (circulation: 6,000,000). Snorting brontosauri with swarms of pterodactyls perched on their backs go gallivanting from the primordial slime across the toes of fabulous princesses, heiresses and actresses who, swooning in ermine negligees with hot love-letters stacked around them, "confess all" under the shadow of Science's latest mechanical star-splitter, a device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they...
Expert fingerprinters held a party in Manhattan last week to observe a new, clean method of performing their job. The standard system requires the subject to smudge his thumbs and fingers with printers' ink. messy and hard to remove. The new method utilizes a pad impregnated with a colorless, nonpoisonous chemical compound and a special paper sensitive to that compound. When the subject presses his digits upon the pad, then upon the paper, his prints immediately appear with photographic clarity, his fingers remain clean, less suggestive of wrongdoing...
...better known son. It is easy to see that Holbein the Younger got his interest in art from his father's sketches of monks, nobles, and tradesmen, such as these you see here. Holbein the Younger, by the way, developed the exclusive technique of using black and white ink on colored paper...
...most of the country's banks again open and off his mind for the moment, President Roosevelt drove the rest of his legislative program ahead at top speed last week. While eating a tray luncheon in his office he signed his $500,000,000 Economy Bill. His pen & ink thereby marked an historic transfer of fiscal power from the Congress to the Presidency. Heretofore Congress has appropriated specific sums to be spent as ordered on veterans and Federal employes. Under the new law Congress authorizes a lump sum expenditure, leaves it for the President to spend within certain broad...
Manufacturers of binoculars, rope, paint, varnish, furniture, mattresses, hammocks, Diesel engines and fire extinguishers told how the Navy was making these same articles for the fleet at increased costs to the taxpayer. That the Government Printing Office should manufacture ink, paste and mucilage incensed all U. S. ink, paste and mucilage manufacturers. Bitter were the complaints of local retailers against the Army's system of post exchanges where merchandise was underpriced and untaxed. Railroaders flayed the War Department's barge line on the Mississippi as open larceny of their freight traffic. Musicians flayed the Army, Navy and Marine...