Prices allow the pencil makers to quickly set aside numerous procedures for making pencils that would result in functioning pencils, but at the cost of squandering natural or labor resources better ...

Roald Dahl, best-selling author of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” sharpened six of them each day before he started writing. ESPN football analyst Lee Corso often holds one on TV. The iconic ...

FRANKFURT—Pen and pencil makers are going back to school, learning to sell writing implements in the age of smartphones, tablets and laptops. Some, including Crayola LLC of the U.S. and Germany’s ...