Pencil Endures as Workhorse Despite New Writers
The Lead Pencil Manufacturers Association reports that the common lead pencil remains the workhorse of writing even as typewriters ballpoint pens and other mechanical writers gain prominence.
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1960
Page
4
The Lead Pencil Manufacturers Association reports that the common lead pencil remains the workhorse of writing even as typewriters ballpoint pens and other mechanical writers gain prominence.
President Eisenhower plans a Latin American tour visiting Argentina Chile Uruguay and Brazil to seek deeper inter American understanding and mutual aid. He will meet presidents Frondizi Alessandri Kubitschek and Uruguayan officials while regional leaders push realistic hemisphere aid policies.
The document lists a travel timetable starting in Washington on February 22 arriving in Brazil February 25, departing Brazil February 26, arriving Argentina February 28, with further entries truncated. The fragment hints at a diplomatic or ceremonial itinerary but ends mid sentence, leaving exact destinations and subsequent dates unclear.
Cleveland based report from Steel Magazine predicts a buyer’s market returning by April as producers scramble for orders. Excess stockpiles may allow some steel types to loosen allocations though tight supply could persist for months.
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