Search Details

Word: pens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Thorez not only put the United States first, he underlined the two words with a quick stroke of his pen. Then he smiled engagingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Challenger | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

Previous | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | Next