Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago's S. Buchsbaum & Co. was turning out a $12.50 vacuum feed ball pen, "The Style King Magic Flow," hoped to sell 150,000 this year...
...Ball Pen Co. of Los Angeles, which makes the Blythe pen, was producing 3,500 pens a day, to fill a backlog of 350,000 orders...
...Kimberly Pen Co. of Los Angeles had sold 25,000 of an earlier model, had just turned to a new cartridge-type model selling for $12.50. Kimberly was turning out 2,000 pens a day, to fill orders on hand...
...three of the Big Four in the $60,000,000-a-year pen industry had apparently been caught napping by the new pen, which looked as if it would indeed, as its makers said, revolutionize the industry. Parker and Waterman were working on ball pens, but were not sure when they would put them on the market. The W. A. Sheaffer Pen Co. expected to have its ball pen on the market some time next fall...
...midst of this, Penman Milton Reynolds, who had already skimmed the cream from the market by getting his pen out first, went after the milk. He arranged to distribute his pens in the United Kingdom, said he plans to open a plant in Australia...