Word: alienable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patents Pending. General Aniline & Film Corp. offered to lease over 3,500 patents for products and processes that it does not want to exploit itself. This brought to over 43,000 the number of patents (ranging from high explosives to foldable spades and hoes) which the U.S. Office of Alien Property, owner of General Aniline, has released to U.S. businessmen...
...viewed as stemming from a shared abhorrence of the idea of one man being in overt authority over an equal"); plumbing ("the symbolic and patriotic value of these adjuncts to sanitary and comfortable living has become so great that Americans in foreign countries tend to esteem these alien societies in direct proportion to the number and availability of these amenities...
...Manhattan, the Justice Department's drive on alien Communists caught up with Russia-born Irving Potash, vice president of the C.I.O.'s International Fur & Leather Workers Union, member of the Communist Party's national committee. He was hustled off to Ellis Island, where he joined four others held as deportable Communists.* He also joined them in what they cried was a hunger strike against their being denied bail. At week's end all were free on bond, pending hearings. None looked the worse for his fast...
...diaries of Nazi Paul Goebbels belong to the U.S. Government: so the Office of Alien Property decided last week. Doubleday & Co., which thought it held the rights, sadly agreed (TIME, March 1). Nevertheless with OAP's blessing, Doubleday will go ahead with the diaries' publication. The book will still be the May selection of the Book-of-the-Month and some 75 U.S. newspapers will run a series of excerpts. But all royalties (a minimum of $160,000) and all other profits will be held in escrow until GAP decides whether or not Doubleday is entitled to anything...
Last August the Department of Justice's Office of Alien Property seized the two AKU subsidiaries. The Dutch protested, but when OAP proved that one-third of AKU's stock had been German-owned, the Dutch waived rights to one-third of AKU's holdings. This gave the Office of Alien Property controlling interest in North American and Bemberg, which are jointly managed. (The Dutch got AKU's other U.S. subsidiary, American Enka Corp.) No sooner had the Government taken over when a squabble broke out between the board of directors and OAP Boss David...