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...word was coined in 1934 by Dow Chemical Co.'s Dr. William Jay Hale in his book, The Farm Chemurgic. The "urgy" comes from the Greek word ergon - work. Chemurgy was intended to mean "chemistry at work," hence to cover the whole chemical industry. The industry has ignored the word, but its wholehearted adoption by the National Farm Chemurgic Council has given it an agricultural context: the production-and-use of farm products for chemical industry...
...Meyer has written some 170 papers and books in long, periodic sentences which loop and wind halfway down the page. To stress the dynamic nature of disease, he invented a new system of classification based on the Greek root erg (from ergon, work). Medical students in his courses, who had to learn such tonguetwisters as ergasiatry (psychiatry), oligergasia (idiocy), merergasia (hysteria), promptly for got them after examinations. Although few understand just what Dr. Meyer says, all his colleagues know what he means. (At a Hopkins celebration once, a student delivered a long speech in Chinese, then announced: "You have just...
...Court had not actually awarded him any damages, or said that his patents were infringed, or ruled that Mr. Fox's company owned the patents. In fact, Fox Film Corp. was contending that the man who in 1930 had lost control of that company had bought the Tri-Ergon patents abroad with $45,000 of Fox Film money and hence had no right to them. And finally it was argued that the "double print" and "sprocket" processes for recording and reproducing sound-the prime points of dispute-were not entirely fundamental and could be circumvented by smart sound-engineers...
...Electrical Research Products were making and leasing sound apparatus which involved the "double print" method of recording, the "sprocket" method of reproduction. Other systems were obsolete. But William Fox was sure those processes infringed on patents which he had acquired from three Germans and transferred to American Tri-Ergon Corp., his personal holding company formed in 1928. He sued Paramount Publix, the Wilmer & Vincent circuit and a Paramount Publix subsidiary. In effect he was suing R. C. A. Photophone and Electrical Research Products, both of which leaped to defend the defendants...
...week when the first of his major suits against the makers and users of sound film reproduction equipment for alleged infringement of patents (U. S. rights to which Mr. Fox personally acquired from a German concern in 1928) was brought to trial in Brooklyn. Under the name American Tri-Ergon Corp. (90% owned by Mr. Fox) he is seeking a permanent injunction against Paramount Publix Corp., together with an accounting of the profits Paramount has earned. Other suits are pending against RKO Radio Pictures R. C. A. Photophone, a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph's Western Electric. Both Wall...