HOW MUCH INK IS USED PER DAY AT THE BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING?
Between the Fort Worth Texas and the Washington D.C. facil- ities, The Bureau of Engraving and Printing uses about 18 tons of inkper day. HOW DID THE DOLLAR SIGN – $ – ORIGINATE? The origin of the dollar sign is not known, but may be derived fromthe Spanish or Mexican “P’s” that appeared on the peso, or piastre, whichare Spanish silver coins of the seventeenth or eighteenth centuries markedwith an “8” because they were worth eight reals. The dollar sign”$” is probably derived from the figure `8′ as it appeared on `pieces ofeight’. WHO WAS THE ONLY PRESIDENT TO EARN A Ph.D? Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, was the only president to earn hisdoctorate. He was the twenty-eighth U.S. president, born inStaunton, Virginia, and the son of a Presbyterian minister. He studiedat Princeton and Johns Hopkins, gaining his Ph.D. with the firstof his major books on American gov- ernment, Congressional Government (1885). WHAT DID IT MEAN TO “SAVE FACE”IN THE LATE 1700’S? Men and woman of this period w
