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I am a 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...
¶ The 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.
¶ The 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 for 250,000.
But 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...
In the 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.