Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran from the Asiatic-Pacific theater, and I'm tired of war; but not too tired, now or ever, to fight for freedom for myself and all other peoples, at home or abroad. Out there I used a gun; back here I use a pen. Let's dig out our local fascists before we all have to trade our pens in on our guns again...
...sort of resent being charged with napping, the evidence being that Parker Pen has not brought out a ball pen [TIME, May 13]. It's like charging you with napping because the Curtis Publishing Co. brought out a magazine called Holiday and you didn't. Maybe you didn't want...
Earnings, I think, are still the best way to show how you're doing, and the box score in the pen business for the 12 -month period ending Feb. 28, 1946 was: Net Earnings Before Taxes After Taxes Parker $7,3O1,548.72 $2,331,682.99 Eversharp 5,602,444.56 1,805,444.56 Sheaffer 1,606,946.43 847,460.14 Others Unknown but smaller As long as two years ago, our management realized (between naps) that we could make a quick fast bulge in sales and profits by marketing a ball pen. You don't have to be the seventh...
This is not the first time the Parker Pen Co. has turned thumbs down on making a lot of easy money. We voluntarily produced many millions of dollars' worth of munitions on a no-profit basis. It's things like that maybe that enable one to take a nap without bad dreams. Also, we want to stay in business another 58 years...
Thorez not only put the United States first, he underlined the two words with a quick stroke of his pen. Then he smiled engagingly...