Word: patent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farm, such fancy training aids as vitamin pills and patent-medicine tonics have long been discarded. Says Jimmy Jones: "Grass has pills beat." One Jones trick: in hot weather, young horses are turned out to run at night instead of during...
...Motors. They would find their new product, retailing at $1,095 f.o.b. Detroit, familiar. At the party on Dearborn Motors' experimental farm - purchased last year from Henry II-those who saw the new tractor thought it looked so much like the Ford-Ferguson machine that many predicted a patent squabble...
...payroll of TVA to McKellar patronage, is the god-father of one of five pending bills designed to do away with the Atomic Energy Commission. Another implacable foe of the Commission is J. Parnell Thomas who operates by the subtler procedure of periodically releasing stories relating how the Patent Office has given Russia all our atomic know-how, or that an Oak Ridge employee has a wife who works for the Soviet Embassy...
...Factory. Isaac was born in Russia. But he did not go in lace and patent leather to one of Russia's prodigy factories, then on to famed Leopold Auer in St. Petersburg, like Violinists Heifetz and Elman. The Stern family settled in San Francisco before Isaac's parents decided to make a violinist of him. Says Isaac: "They took me to concerts but I did not come back and cry for a violin, nor did I pick up a fiddle and play from memory every note I'd heard at the concert. The idea of a career...
...Hint from Medicine Men. Meanwhile, the chemical war against cancer took a strange turn. Scientists are now experimenting with an ancient remedy well known to patent-medicine makers: the mandrake, or Mayapple root. For centuries, men have regarded the mandrake with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...