Word: patent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inventions recently registered at the U.S. Patent Office, as reported in the National Foundation for Science & Industry's Digest of New Inventions...
Until last fall, giant RCA was well on its way to raising baby its own way. It controlled many a patent on black & white television broadcasting and reception, had a huge investment in manufacturing black & white receivers...
...Billy" Durant came into the world in Boston with not even a loan. Raised in Flint, Mich., he quit school at 17. By selling patent medicine, cigars, insurance and borrowing from friends, he scraped up enough to join a fellow clerk in buying out a carriage factory for $2,000. Through his prodigious energy and salesmanship ("he could coax a bird out of a tree") the company acquired 14 plants by 1904. Durant's "Blue Ribbon" carriages became the Fords of a horse-drawn world...
...write letters blatant On medicines patent-And use any others you mustn't-And vow my complexion Derives its perfection...
...samples gleamed like silver. O'Connor's business had fallen off after V-J day. But if he could produce a gleaming surface without the expense of buffing and polishing, he could get more orders than he had handled during the war. He hired Magee, enlisted a patent attorney, and prepared to get rich...