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About 40 raw materials go into a pencil...
...takes a month to make a penny pencil, six months for a 10? pencil. Cedar wood is best. When the cedar forests of the South began to be exhausted the pencil-makers frantically bought cedar fences and log cabins but now the West's cedar stands, although inferior in quality, are considered adequate. A good pencil could draw a line from 35 to 70 mi. long before it was worn out. One of the best of recent pencil years was 1927. Lead Pencil Institute reported 6,100,000 gross of pencils valued at $14,477,000 sold that year...
Elementary facts about the big U. S. pencil four...
American. Pride of American Lead Pencil Co. is its Venus, world's only green crackle-finished pencil. The company was incorporated in 1886 but has been in business for a good 70 years. Its president is Sam Joseph Reckford. whose father Joseph Reckendorfer was an original partner in Eagle Pencil Co. His tall nephew John King Reckford. inventor of the present method of painting the Venus, is vice president. Secretary and treasurer is his son Joseph Reckford. Nothing would so delight Joseph Reckford as to hear people say, ''Look, look, there goes the Pencil King...
Dixon. Sea captains, returning to Salem from far-off ports, used to bring back graphite. About 1827 Joseph Dixon began buying graphite and making crucibles out of it. He died in 1869. Twelve years later. E. F. C. Young reorganized the company, began making pencils. Joseph Dixon Crucible Co. is the one pencil concern whose stock can be bought by the public. It is also one of the largest makers of crucibles, lubricants, paint and other graphite products. It does not report earnings but stockholders have received generous dividends-$110 a share...