Word: kohinoor
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...Pencil Institute reported 6,100,000 gross of pencils valued at $14,477,000 sold that year. In 1930 sales of $11,763,000 were realized on 5,386,000 gross. Imports are fractional compared to U. S. manufacturing. But a hardy competitor of U. S. pencils is the KohInoor, imported from Czechoslovakia. It was the first scientifically graded drawing pencil on the world market and draftsmen are inclined to demand it despite the 33.'% lower gross cost of U. S.-made pencils. The yellow KohInoor was the first fine quality pencil...
Louis Cartier of Paris, red .cheeked and affable, visited in Manhattan his brother Pierre with whom he conducts the international jewelry firm of Cartiers. Dangling a model of the Kohinoor, he said: "The great diamonds of the world are vanishing. There are only ten of the first class between 100 and 200 carats and no more than 250 of the second class between 50 and 100 carats. There are many, many more prospective purchasers than that...
...terrible explosion of gas occurred at the Kohinoor colliery at Shenandoah, Pa., yesterday. Six men were killed and three fatally injured...