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There was no such thing as a plant patent in the U. S. when Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent...
...last year. With a 1935 production of 750,000 units, the truck industry consists of some 50 companies, most of which are known only to the people who buy trucks. Many have a distinctly regional flavor. Brockway Motor is strong in the Northeast. Kleiber of San Francisco, Moreland of Burbank, Kenworth of Seattle, distribute on the Pacific Coast. Corbitt Co. is a North Carolina concern...
...addition to himself, five other regulars, P. Robie '38 and Richard G. Powell '38, fullbacks, Daniel E. Burbank, Jr.'37, halfback, and T. Newlin Hastings '38 and Thomas Motley, 2nd '38, forwards, will return to action next year...
...members of the commission will be Leonard D. White, of Washington, D. C., United States Civil Service Commissioner; William B. Murno, of Pasadena, California, professor of History and Government at the California Institute of Technology; Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration; Harold H. Burbank, professor of Political Economy; and Morris B. Latuble, professor of Government, who will serve as secretary of the commission...
...Summary: YALE HARVARD Hall, Peters, g. g., Gray Parker, r.f. r.f., Gosline, Junkin Keefe, l.f. l.f., Morrison Reese, r.h. r.h., Scott Whitney, c.h. c.h., Brainsford, Haskell Smith, l.h. l.h., Burbank, Sachs Belin, Hills, r.o. r.o., Fraley, Torney Carter, Belin, r.i. r.i., Howard Stranger, c.f. c.f., O'Conner, Brainsford Levine, li. l.i., Alexandre Hills, Cunningham, l.o. l.o., Arrowsmith...