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...Bellboys, erupted into the courtyard, banging pots and pans every time the expert let go. The musician, suspicious by nature and unaccustomed to dining hall food, decided that he was being poisoned. He was shipped back to Russia after a Stillman nurse found him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast. This left no one with sufficient zvon-aptitude to shake Lowell's rafters, and today the bells are only set in motion on special occasions...
Then came another wonder. A small, light press printed text and pictures at 1,200 feet of paper a minute without any fluid ink or rollers. Said one publisher: "This looks like the beginning of a revolution...
...Black Ink. Before a year was out, Kamen, bolstered by the 1933 success of Three Little Pigs, had plastered the Disney label on $10 million worth of manufactured goods. After Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1938) the business became a landslide. The roster of licensees grew to resemble a bluebook of U.S. big business (it includes Standard Oil, Du Pont, General Mills, Armour meats, Life Savers). In Manhattan, Gimbels sold 2,000 pairs of Mickey Mouse sandals in one day; in Chicago, Marshall Field recently had a $10,000 day on $3 sweaters offering a choice of Mickey Mouse...
...their prospectus, the editors of the new magazine declared that they were taking on "the greatest journalistic assignment in history"-to mirror industrial civilization in ink and paper. They could hardly have picked a worse time. In the stormy winter of 1930 nobody could guarantee that either the civilization or the fledgling FORTUNE would long survive...
...Seal & Red Ink. In its heyday, Continental powered hundreds of models of independent automobiles with its famous "Red Seal" engines. But it was on the downgrade in 1931 when onetime Mechanic Jack Reese came in as purchasing agent; only a million-dollar RFC loan saved it from bankruptcy. In 1939, when Continental lost $215,165 on $7,000,000 in sales, RFC forced a reorganization and insisted that cost-conscious Jack Reese run the company...