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...grip on the industry that five independent radio manufacturers, backed by RPA, went into the Federal court at Wilmington, Del. and asked Judge Hugh Martin Morris to pass on the legality of RCA's tube contract with competitors. Judge Morris ruled that the contract was a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust Law as it tended to create a monopoly. RCA appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court which in April refused to set aside what amounted to a monopoly conviction as specified by the Federal Radio...
...lottery tickets. Further search of Mr. Fish's baggage revealed a total of 1,000,000 tickets on the Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. Convinced that the U. S. would be a fertile market after the publicity given the winning of $886,360 by Clayton Woods of Buffalo last month (TIME, April 6). Mr. Fish himself stood to make some
...three persons most concerned with the result of the Grand National were not at Aintree. One was Emilio Scala, the proprietor of a coffee shop in London, who had Grakle's ticket in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes. Another was Clayton C. Woods, the woodwork inspector at Fisher Body's Shops in Buffalo, N. Y. The third was George P. Dyamond, who runs a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa and who, because he had been unable to sell a half interest in his ticket on Annandale...
...Buffalo, Clayton Woods, who with four other members of his family held Gregalach's ticket, worth $886,360* explained that he had been unemployed for a week because, after it was known his ticket was for Gregalach, "my fellow employes would not let me work. They congratulated me and promised me everything and the boss told me to get out." Workman Woods announced that he would purchase his wife "an Easter outfit . . . buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet-lined stall," and give...
...Harold Clayton Urey, chemist of Columbia University: "The experiment may cause another industrial revolution of greater magnitude than that caused by the use of steam and electricity...