Word: patent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cited as an example of price setting that the plastic, when sold in large quantities for Plexiglas, cost 85? a lb.; when sold in small quantities to dentists for dentures, the price was $45 a lb. Defense attorneys answered: the agreements had been made to protect the products and patents, a perfectly legal procedure under U.S. patent laws; at times the operations appeared to assume the aspects of monopoly, but there was no conspiracy...
...Harrison talk's book for "The Passionate Congressman" is patent Journalese in three acts, and when supported by a well-picked, if understandably less well-recharged, cast it makes excellent summer theatre entertainment...
...Charms were popular: for convulsions, pour baptismal water over the peony bush; for bedwetting, fried-mouse pie; for a cold, crawl through a double-rooted briar toward the east; for a fever, write "Abracadabra" on a piece of paper and wear it over the stomach. Manufactured charms included "Perkins Patent Tractors" (metal rods to draw out disease) and "Dr. Christie's Galvanic Belt . . . for all nervous diseases...
...been Will Davis' job to hold the line on wages; it would be his job now to hold the line on wages and prices too-to guard the whole U.S. against the insistent pressure of inflation. Grinning, the 65-year-old Manhattan patent lawyer wryly described the assignment as "a nice little...
...well-qualified expert last week took on the thankless job of defending commercial "plugs." The unloved commercials' aggressive defender was Ralph Smith, general manager of Duane Jones Co., an ad agency that puts some 2,000 commercials on the air every week-mostly for soap and patent medicines. In a letter to the New York Times, Smith asserted "Persons who complain about commercials are, as a rule, disgustingly healthy or so strongly fortified financially that grocery bills are no problem. Frankly, commercials are not written for such as these...