Word: licensee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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True, since the days of the old-time reporter, both men and minds have changed. The reporter of today is a better man than his predecessor. He has to be. He is better-educated, better-paid. Neither he nor his editor can get away with the cheap sensationalism of yesterday...
Harvard is an academic corporation granted a charter under certain specific conditions. This is tantamount to a license to engage in the teaching profession, provided the University abides by the provisions of the charter. The appointment of Bertrand Russell is grossly out of accord with the conditions laid down.
...after World War I that General Electric's patents were law-proof, settled down to make bulbs under G. E. license, on a production quota of 2% of G. E.'s own. Pushing like a radish sprout under a rock, the Poor Brothers merged with other small licensees, ran their quota up to 10%, became No. 3 lamp maker (after G. E. & Westinghouse...
Still pushing, the Poors went into radio tubes, on license from R. C. A. A merger with Sylvania Products Co. in 1931 got them 100% more tube capacity, also Hygrade Sylvania's present president, bespectacled Benjamin Erskine (who owned Sylvania). Now Hygrade is the No. 2 tube maker, but...
The present arrangement enables a student to obtain a Class 1 license, which gives him the right to fly planes under 1,300 pounds. A Class 5 license includes anything above 25,000 pounds--the China Clipper, for example. Presumably a student in next year's course would graduate to...