Word: pencils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eagle Pencil Company of New York did not know that El Salvador was omitted from a world map which it was including in children's pencil boxes until the United Press called its attention to the protest made by the National Tourist Board of El Salvador to the Salvadorean Minister in Washington. The Eagle Pencil Company regrets this incident which was entirely unintentional on its part. It did not prepare or print the map in question but bought the same from a company of high standing in the printing trade. The error will be corrected in the future...
This statement from Eagle Pencil Co. did much to mollify Salvadorans last week. El Salvador nestles between Guatemala and Honduras on the west coast of Central America. Its area is 13,176 square miles and its 1,600,000 population are chiefly Indians & half-castes. It became an independent republic in 1839, on the dissolution into independent republics of the Central American Federation. This had comprised the States of (from north to south) Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. El Salvador, the smallest, most densely populated of the Central American countries, has 80% of her soil under cultivation...
Other points from Eyewitness Mowrer: "Three officers in plain khaki uniforms, devoid of any insignia whatever, came into the room and talked in Russian and made pencil marks on the map stretched over the table...
...nerve tracts in the neck region of her spinal cord were injured at birth, causing spastic paralysis (muscular rigidity). But Sylva was endowed with high courage. She learned to read, turned the pages of her books with her tongue. She used a typewriter by poking the keys with a pencil held between her teeth. With a brush between her teeth she tinted photographs, made drawings. She was careful of her appearance, applied her own cosmetics by moving her face against lipsticks and powderpuffs. Her parents took her to the cinema in her wheel chair...
...World War aviator, left Europe to become an assistant director on Christie comedies. In Hollywood he drew cartoons (as decorations for subtitles), became so proficient with his wiry, single-line caricatures that Dole Pineapple Co. pays him well for the right to use them. In directing he uses his pencil sketches to show the actors what he wants...