Word: patent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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George Foley had also supervised the erection by Spratt's Patent Ltd. of a mile of temporary kennels, in which the dogs lay panting, yapping, sleeping, in which handlers & owners, as well, occasionally took refuge. In three days the So tons of dogs were fed four tons of Spratt's dog food, a sop of wheat, meat, bone dust, and water. Foley for his order, Spratt's for their larder, between them pocketed a large slice of the 875.000 laid out by the Club. Other major expenses: $20,000 each for rent of the Garden...
...brief, Sanforizing consists of heating and running a bolt of cloth over an elastic blanket, which contracts and pulls the moistened cloth back to proper length, and makes it stay that way. Cluett, Peabody has an exclusive patent on the process, not only uses it itself but collects royalties ranging from ¼ ?to 1? a yard from 63 U. S. cotton mills producing 60% of U. S. cotton goods. Last week Cluett, Peabody announced that cotton goods Sanforized in 1937 totaled 425,000,000 yds., against 352,000,000 in 1936, 238,000,000 in 1937. Royalties amounted...
...only blind man in the 75th U. S. Congress.* A onetime Pittsburgh newsdealer who says that he "would rather be a radical than a rubber stamp," curly-headed Democrat Dunn often rises, black glasses blazing, to harangue his collagues, who rarely listen to him, on such subjects as patent pools, monopoly, or the insufficiency of Relief expenditures. Before the holiday adjournment, Representative Dunn ascended the speaker's rostrum, caroled several stanzas of Oh Come, All Ye Faithful and played his harmonica to an all but empty house (see cut, p. 8). Later he inserted in the Congressional Record...
Sirs: Tst, tst. Broderick Crawford's shoes in Of Mice and Men (TIME, Dec. 6) have a 4½-in. buildup, not 4 in., as reported. I ought to know-I made them. In street shoes Crawford stands 6 ft. 1½ in., in my shoes (Trademark "Staturaid" patent pending) he's a 6½ footer. Incidentally, this was only the second theatrical order I executed and with that buildup you can't expect inconspicuousness. My regular customers, business and professional people (average sales 200 pairs a month), generally need only 1½ to 2 inches...
...small vices instead of big ones. "When tobacco was discovered, people who had been flogging slaves and watching bear fights began to get enjoyment instead from a quiet smoke." But many drug stores are a bad sign. Dr. Thorndike thinks this is true because an inferior town buys many patent medicines and cosmetics...