The scene on this date in 1945 at Gimbel’s department store in New York City was shopping chaos. Big ads the day before had trumpeted the first sale in the U.S. of a new writing instrument that guaranteed it would write for two years without refilling — the ballpoint pen. By the end of the day, the store had sold its entire stock of 10,000 at $12.50 each. The idea of the ballpoint pen was first patented in 1888 by John Loud of Massachusetts, who never made any pens. Now, ballpoints are the standard. Vast selections are offered by the nation’s 7,400 office supply stores, which employ some 94,000 workers. You can find current data on the country’s economy by downloading the ‘America’s Economy’ mobile application at <www.census.gov/mobile>.
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I see the Daily Dispatch has the THIEF who stole all the $$$ from the County of Vance appeared in Superior Court and her atty. Nick Bagshawe has requested a “change of venue”!!! That’s funny!!! I mean if she was ‘living high off the hog’ by stealing $$$ from Vance County TaxPayers then she should face the same TaxPayers should it go to a Jury Trial….which it won’t. She will be offered a Plea Deal after 5-10 appearances in Court. I still stand behind my comments early on when I said she wouldn’t serve 1 day in JAIL. Prove me wrong!!!
District 9 Judicial System is well known for offering plea deals. Don’t know if it was rumor or fact but someone within District 9 made the comment that Judge Yancey was leaving the Bench and going back into Private Practice. I guess we’ll find out sooner rather than later.
Have at it……………..