Word: inking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overall Objective. Looking over the domestic scene, Truman insisted that he hates deficit spending as much as Harry Byrd, but that the present red-ink budget is only temporary. Besides, there wouldn't be any deficit spending if the Republican Congress had not cut income taxes. His overall objective was steadily to expand the economy to absorb the million and a half young people who come into it annually and such expansion would in itself wipe out the deficit by increasing national income. This cannot be done without the measures outlined in the Fair Deal...
Even this isn't up to the latest in cereal box design. The new emphasis is on audience participation. What look like multi-colored Rorschach ink-blots with a fringe of tabs on the backs of boxes turn out to be pieces marked out for constructing models. There are Roman chariots (one is advised to use sticks of macaroni for the axles), county fair grounds, and a Northwest Mounted Police Headquarters and Assayers office...
McCarthy's iron will and lordly tastes are reflected by other aspects of the hotel. There is the color scheme, for instance, which boasts 63 different shades of green and encompasses walls, rugs, the bellhops' emerald & lemon uniforms and the grass-hued ink with which guests sign the register. McCarthy makes all public announcements concerning the hotel (George Lindholm, whom he hired away from Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria as manager, resigned quietly last week...
Points are scored in that branch of the sport when a fencer hits any part of his opponents body. Previously, red ink had been used on the sword tips to indicate hits, but there was often uncertainty in close action as to which man made the first...
Like the pre-publication dummy (TIME, Sept. 12), Flair's Vol. I, No. 1 was full of tricks. Samples: a "window" in the cover permitting a partial view of the next page, an accordion foldout, a page of Fleur's own self-assured handwriting in gold ink on blue paper, pages of odd sizes and varied textures. To readers familiar with Fleur's wearing of a rose as a trademark, Flair's frontispiece was the most Fleurish -and Freudian-touch of all: it was a reproduction of Girl with Roses by Artist Lucian Freud, grandson...