Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course he was a Communist, he said, but a German one, who had taken no part in the U.S. party's business. He was just a writer for something called the German-American. He had helped out on a book, The Lesson of Germany. He often used the pen name Hans Berger...
High Profits. When other new pen-makers, notably Reynolds, threatened to tap the market first, Eversharp tried to stop them with a flurry of patent suits. The pens came out anyway, and sold like the hottest of cakes. When Eversharp finally brought out its own pen, it was delighted to find that the market was still going strong. Now it is turning out 30,000 pens a day, is sold out for months. This year, Eversharp expects to gross $50,000,000 on pens & pencils (2½ times as much as all pen & pencilmakers sold in 1939), net about...
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...
...will be spitted like a hog," muttered one of Napoleon's unimaginative professionals. But Henri Beyle, in whom genius and absurdity were uniquely compounded, somehow survived-and under the pen name of "Stendhal" immortalized his adventures in soldiery in two great works of fiction: The Red and the Black and The Charterhouse of Parma...
...Glittering Notoriety. Yet he was no flop. Before he was 30 he had risen to the post of supply commissary in the Grand Army, and served as military governor of Brunswick in occupied Prussia (he took his pen name from the little German town of Stendal). He returned to France a member of "that hierarchy of five or six hundred top officials through whom the Empire was ruled...