Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reynolds International Pen Co., first to sell a ball pen in the U.S., startled the pen industry with another first this week. With a fanfare that sounded suspiciously like the opening barrage in a price war, Reynolds put on sale its new Packet Ball Pen. The price, $5.85, was more than $4 cheaper than any other ball pen on the market and less than half that of earlier Reynolds pens...
Said Frank Sarantos, genial owner of the club, "We may not be able to hold prices down much longer. They want your right arm for a piece of ham these days." With a deft stroke of his pen he marked up ham and egg sandwiches from 35 to a tentative 40 cents. "All but a few sandwiches will stay the same," he continued, adding that he would await further moves by his competitors. Normally a power behind the scenes, Sarantos had appeared during the current crisis in Washington to take personal command of his forces...
...greatest humorist the Jews ever produced." Rabinowitch was born in Pereyaslav, the Ukraine, in 1859. In his father's inn Sol grew from boyhood to manhood-and observed the customers. At 23, he began to write-about the customers-for Hamelitz, a Jewish periodical. He took the pen name Sholom Aleichem, the Jewish equivalent of "How do you do?", and turned out copy like a mimeograph...
...Parker Pen Co. Janesville...
...Reynolds International Pen Co. say that their net earnings after taxes (for six months) were...