Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Cartoonist Dowling. whose political humor always keeps on top of the news, put his pen to work on the big political consideration of the week: President Eisenhower's need for Democratic support in Congress to push through his legislative program. But Dowling still has more fun with the opposition, e.g., his cartoon of Stevenson in a lifeboat after his recent speech on the "fears" that have spread in the U.S. since the Republicans took office...
Discount houses will soon find detectives checking up on their activities. The W. A. Shaeffer Pen Co. has hired three agencies (Burns, Pinkerton, Willmark) to find out how discount men get hold of Shaeffer pens (some $125,000 worth in 1953) to sell below Fair Trade minimums...
...PARKER Pen Co., last big holdout against ballpoint pens, will finally bow to the trend. After nine years of experiment, it will bring out its first ballpoint this week, for $2.75. The company claims it will give 60 hours of writing (v. 14 for most other pens) without replacing the cartridge...
Tough Alloy. "Elgiloy," a tough, cobalt-base alloy developed by Elgin National Watch Co. and Battelle Memorial Institute for rustproof and breakproof watch springs, is now on the market. Possible uses: fountain-pen nibs, valves, dental equipment, aircraft instruments and bearings...
Home Place. In Salem, Ore., released after serving a term for auto theft, Joseph Trapp was arrested as he drove by the state prison "to see what the pen looks like from the outside," admitted that he had stolen the car, explained: "I would have been arrested for vagrancy anyhow...