Word: inking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ink. Warnings to small investors against heedless speculation, delivered by New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston and others, have had some effect. But the disappointing performance of the growth-stock companies probably did as much as anything to deglamorize them. Many just did not live up to their great (but exaggerated) profit expectations. Transitron, which made its debut last year and quickly scaled to 60. is now down to 24 because 1960's black ink has turned to red. Pale profits in vending machines have sent Vendo down more than 50% from March's peak...
...ink was hardly dry before Tyrolean extremists found cause for grousing. The Italians merged South Tyrol with Italian-speaking Trento province, creating a new, bigger "autonomous" Alto Adige province in which the Italians outnumbered the German-speaking citizens 2 to 1. The Tyroleans claimed Italians were given all the important government administrative jobs; German was neglected in the public schools and no longer recognized as an official language. Last year Austria took the Tyroleans' claims to the U.N., which directed Austria and Italy to get together and settle the problem. Two tries earlier this year failed, but in preparation...
Another reader reported that Sanford's Xit, an ink eradicator, was also fine for removing banana-leaf stains, a common island washday problem. When this intelligence, duly confirmed by a home test, appeared in "Readers' Exchange," it generated such a demand that the U.S. manufacturer had to fly in an emergency planeload-which vanished in a day. So many similar hints poured in ("For those who have no dustpan. Wet the edge of a newspaper. Place it on the floor and sweep residue onto this"), that Columnist Heloise soon had a reputation as a household authority...
Dwight Eisenhower's farewell presidential gift to the nation was the promise of a surplus for fiscal 1961. Reviewing Ike's tote sheet after his own inauguration, John Kennedy quickly concluded that the Eisenhower black ink was unrealistic...
...Geneva, the project of L-C and Pierre Jeanneret was the only one of 360 schemes (seven miles of plans) that received four votes out of nine. It was at this point that the delegate from Pans pointed out: 'This scheme has not been drawn in India ink. I insist it be disqualified, and it was." Huffed Corbu of his critics in those years: "Madmen...