Word: inking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ADVERTISING VOLUME will smash all records in 1956, predicts Printers' Ink. With all media ex cept radio showing big increases, total volume should top $10 billion this year for $800 million jump over 1955's previous peak of $9.2 billion...
...little to go on: the first ransom note ("I hate to do this . . . I'm in great need. I could ask for more [than $2.000] but I am asking for only what I need") was handwritten in green ink; there were peculiarities in the m's and r's. As one crew of agents set out to track down the supplier of the type of paper that the note was written on, scores of agents started to examine a vast variety of public records. First, they vainly sorted through 75,000 fingerprint cards of people...
...been arrested two years before in a police raid on a bootleg still. Included in the LaMarca file were documents that LaMarca himself had signed in green ink. The agents rushed their evidence to field headquarters, where technicians made their analysis...
...Louis Schwartz, concluded that the reaction was similar to the reaction of drinkers to Antabuse, the anti-alcoholism drug which produces nausea and other physical disorders (TIME, Oct. 29, 1951). Then he learned that the company had recently doubled the amount of antiscum compound used in its color inks. Over at the ink-manufacturing plant he found that weekend drinkers were suffering the same ill effects. Dr. Lewis shut up Volunteers Puglisi and Grimes with a basin of antiscum compound, set them to playing cards and later to drinking whisky. They emerged splotched, red-eyed and drowsy. That cleared...
...sweeping front lawn. Checking on imports from the Orient (a service" the museum performs gratis for some art importers) has also tipped Fuller off to good buys, set him up to get in first bids to dealers. Thanks to Fuller, the museum today owns the only Japanese broken ink scroll by Sesshu (TIME, May 14) outside Japan; its 16th century Japanese water jar (bought by Fuller for $1,600) is a mate to one of Japan's "national treasures...