Word: sheaffer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eversharp had passed Parker Pen Co. and Sheaffer, and had an ace up its sleeve to grab off the brand new ballpen market. The ace: the North and Central American rights to the Biro patents, for which it had laid out $500,000 (TIME...
Eagle Pencil Co. has just put on sale its "Orbic" for $10, has already sold out all it can produce until well into 1947. Sheaffer is expected to bring out its ball pen shortly. Nobody knows how big the ballpen "market really is. But Eversharp hopes to keep getting the lion's share with its high price policy. Its next model: a $100 pen, plus...
...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 son of a seventh...
...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...
Thus Citizens Yacko, Sheaffer and Day outlined the dilemma of draft-age fathers caught between the demands of family responsibility and the mounting crisis in U.S. manpower. Nor did a series of conflicting statements from Washington help them any. Selective Service had warned that fathers in nonessential jobs would be drafted beginning in October. But the cases of Fathers Yacko, Sheaffer and Day sharply underlined the many local exceptions to this general rule. Many a draft board unable otherwise to meet its quotas is already dipping into its supply of family heads aged...