Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...batch name cards, minus which it is almost impossible to do business in China (front of card bears my name in English; reverse side has the Chinese translation, Go Ho Ping, meaning Hope For Peace, which causes many high & low folk to remark: "Very nice name"); one pen, one pencil, one penknife, one passport, two car keys; one inoculation certificate showing 14 original shots plus regular boosters, minus which air travel is taboo; one Chinese Government certificate of registration as a correspondent; about 30,000 dollars Chinese, which is the equivalent of a double-size stuffed wallet and worth about...
...cafe owners into their paragraphs. Last week in Boston, newsmen noticed that the name of Saloonkeeper Toots Shor had been mentioned by five syndicated columnists on one day. They hastily formed the Society for the Prevention of the Mention of the Name of Toots Shor. First resolve: to blue-pencil the name for six months...
James M. Sullivan '48 clipped a coupon in the CRIMSON last week, closed his eyes, used a pencil for his weapon, and hit the bullseye in the Meadows Football Quiz, thus winning an evening of dining and dancing for two at the Framingham nitery...
...with gold trimmings), picked up a radio show to plug it. The show, Take It or Leave It, put a new phrase into the language ("the $64 question") and put Eversharp on the map. Then Eversharp found its own $64 answer, a $64 pen & pencil set. In two years, it sold $32,000,000 worth of the new sets, and $4,875,000 of solid gold $125 sets...
...Eagle Pencil Co. has just put on sale its "Orbic" for $10, has already sold out all it can produce until well into 1947. Sheaffer is expected to bring out its ball pen shortly. Nobody knows how big the ballpen "market really is. But Eversharp hopes to keep getting the lion's share with its high price policy. Its next model: a $100 pen, plus...