Word: pens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coral Comes High is an unpretentious, stark, blow-by-blow story of a terrible action, well told in the fewest possible words and illustrated with the author's own pen & ink sketches...
Maternity Ward. There begin long, sleepless nights during which Gus Kuester may pace the center aisle of the farrowing barn like an expectant father. Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer...
...ghost had merely been laid, not silenced. The pen was still mightier than the pickax. From the crematorium, Trotsky hurled a last indictment. For he had left behind, two thirds completed, the rest in rather full notes, a devastating political biography of his archenemy...
...financial report, Reynolds Co. said reassuringly: "Frankly, one of the problems was the occasional development , of a small air bubble in the barrel of the pen which sometimes prevented the free flow of ink to the ballpoint. Literally thousands of perfect pens were, therefore, returned to the retailer as being defective...
Unperturbed, Gimbels this week ordered another 100,000 pens of a new model not afflicted with embolism. And Reynolds has bought a "practically" new factory in Chicago which will help turn out 30,000 "miraculous" pens a day. But from now on, selling the pens may not be so freehanded. Penman Reynolds wrote his own ticket by tapping the rich postwar market first. Next month he will run into his first stiff competition. Eversharp and Eberhard Faber, who do 10-15% of the U.S. pen-&-pencil business, will put on sale their own ball-point pen...