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A shortage of pens for registering voters had threatened to delay the balloting. Authorities beat the illiteracy problem by printing a different colored ticket for each of the 15 competing parties. The voter thus had merely to select his favorite color from the fistful of slips handed him, and seal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Democracy Is Green | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Through the cold, wet darkness, the people hurried homeward silently, drawing threadbare coats tightly around hunched shoulders. Policemen paced beneath feeble street lights, stamping their feet. A sharp wind whispered through shattered walls and broken towers, bringing shivers to everyone in Nürnberg. This was a night which had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Night without Dawn | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

High Prices. The merchandiser who promulgated this piece of business iconoclasm is Eversharp President Martin L. Straus II, 50, who works as smoothly as a ball bearing in his new empire. (His office is in his apartment in Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel.) Things were not always thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: The $64 Answer | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

High Profits. When other new pen-makers, notably Reynolds, threatened to tap the market first, Eversharp tried to stop them with a flurry of patent suits. The pens came out anyway, and sold like the hottest of cakes. When Eversharp finally brought out its own pen, it was delighted to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: The $64 Answer | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

But its biggest competition will come from the old line companies which have moved slowly into the ballpen field to be sure their pens worked before they were sold.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: The $64 Answer | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

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