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Mr Ballpoint - Audiobook Sample
Gerald Everett Jones - Show Host and Author
English - November 26, 2015 00:00 - 4 minutes - 6.55 MBBooks Arts book review radio talk spoken word humor literature satire Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The oh-so-droll Michael Gilboe narrates. In 1945, Milton Reynolds introduced the ballpoint to the United States and triggered the biggest single-day shopping riot in history at Gimbels in Manhattan. The Reynolds International Pen Company made $5 million in eight weeks during the first non-wartime Christmas season. Thereafter, increasing competition from established companies such as Eversharp triggered several years of the "Pen Wars".