Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fifty thousand patents are issued in Washington every year. The vast majority of these are flops; most important inventions are made by hired technicians in industrial laboratories. But the average member of the National Inventors Congress is an obdurately optimistic freelance who never loses hope that he will hit on...
Very visible and very audible in Chicago last week was the Congress' beaming president, Albert Garrette Burns, who describes himself as "just 210 Ibs. of happy harmony." California-born 51 years ago, Albert Burns invented a lock for Model T Fords, sold 800,000. He worked in a tea...
Published this week was a new, scrupulous biography* with Thornbury sieved out by 35 years of patient research (ended last March by Biographer Finberg's death) in contemporary records and in the previously unstudied "Turner wastepaper basket," eleven boxes of notes and sketchbooks preserved in the National Gallery. The...
Trying to make headway under present circumstances upset market custom. Resigned to heavy industry stagnation, bulls turned to consumer stocks. Last week they bid up Barren's index of retailing chain stocks to the highest level since the August 1937 bull market. Such perennial market favorites as Chrysler, U...
The New York Times's Arthur Krock laid alarmed hands on a little typewritten document by Stuart Chase. It was called Preliminary Suggestions for Standardizing Terminology, or First Aid to the Layman. Mr. Chase had prepared it for SEC's Temporary National Economic (antimonopoly) Committee. Its purpose was...