Word: inks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Printers' Ink has thus described the Book-of-the-Month Club: "An interesting advertising success story. . . . The selection committee, or Editorial Board, . . . in a way is a consumer jury that passes on the quality of [the] merchandise. . . . Circulation has to be constantly maintained. . . . This situation calls for a continual stream of advertising, which has now reached the cumulative total of $8,500,000. . . . Advertising is thus solely responsible for building and maintaining this business in a field in which it was deemed impossible to carry on a mailorder operation...
...artist-in-khaki hiked up and down the front lines in Tunisia, and finally sent home a whopper of a story with typewriter instead of pen and ink. Another soldier made 10 action flights out of Chungking and cracked up on his eleventh. One his hospital bed he received his reward: promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant...
...other afternoon when several dollars which had been burning a hole in my pocket suddenly burst into flame and I found myself in the Coop. By the time my pants had stopped smouldering I discovered I owned a copy of S. J.'s "Dream Department," a bottle of ink-eradicator, and twelve reams of graph paper. The ink-eradicator and the graph paper I was able to fob off on some Woolworth jobber who was loitering around the Square, but my better judgment whispered to me that the tome "Dream Department" was a priceless item, not to be offered...
...artist-in-khaki hiked up and down the front lines in Tunisia, and finally sent home a whopper of a story with typewriter instead of pen and ink. Another soldier made 10 action flights out of Chungking and cracked up on his eleventh. On his hospital bed he received his reward: promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant...
Died. Colonel Clinton Roy Dickinson, 54, longtime chief editorialist of the advertising world, short-story writer, for the past year executive assistant to Draft Director Hershey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Washington. Through advertising's No. 1 tradepaper, Printers' Ink, Editor Dickinson plumped for honesty, dignity, decency in advertising, was an influential booster and lambaster...