Word: copyright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rick") Ricketson, Rocky Mountain division manager of Fox Theatres, as a means of increasing patronage. It worked so much better than Amateur Night, free radios and the like, which cinema exhibitors have been foisting on their patrons ever since the industry began, that Promoter Yaeger soon resigned from Fox, copyrighted Bank Night and organized a company, financed by Ricketson, to disseminate it. Theatre owners who want to run Bank Nights can do so only by buying the right from the holders of territory franchises who have bought these from Promoter Yaeger's Affiliated Enterprises, Inc. Even if the authorities...
Major flaw in the scheme of Bank Night from the point of view of Affiliated Enterprises, Inc. is that the copyright is easy to infringe. Proprietors of drugstores, dance-halls, delicatessens are likely to be incredulous and indignant when warned that they are trespassing. A variation of Bank Night is currently popular at Manhattan's Stork Club, where patrons get free chances for substantial cash prizes. Imitations of Bank Night called "Dividend Night," "Buck Night," "Cash Night," "Screeno," are flourishing in cinema houses all over the U. S. Handing down his opinion in Des Moines. where Bank Night...
...built in nearly two thousand years on the 67-word story of the Flight into Egypt.* News of the Lindbergh flight broke in the final Monday edition of the New York Times, on the streets at 4 a. m. The New York American, morning Hearstpaper, cribbed the Times' copyright story, slapped it on the front page of an extra edition. The rest of Manhattan's morning newspapers were left sitting on their hands...
...ignorantly last week saluted as the Conqueror of Cancer, had already taken care to incorporate the Hendry Connell Research Foundation, Ltd. (capital, $50,000) to keep benign control of his system of treatment. Previously he had patented the manufacture of the hypodermic solution he uses and taken a copyright on Ensol, his apt name for the solution...
...editor admits that what has been chosen is not even as complete as he had hoped on account of copyright restrictions and realizes that some of the pieces are not good poetry. But the propriety of the choice is defended on the ground that such work is indicative of the American mind if it were well received at the time of publication...