Word: patent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Psychiatry, says Dr. Will sensibly, cannot save the world all by itself. He has no patent psychiatric pills for ending war, or meeting the threat of the atomic bomb-or even for getting children to stop biting their nails. But the world, he thinks, would be a better place to live in if people were healthier in their minds. Spreading the word.about psychiatry-to folks who need it, and to doctors who don't know much about it-is a job that Dr. Will finds well worth doing...
...Jewelry and sequins blaze as distractingly as small klieg lights. Large hats block the best efforts of studio electricians. Patent leather shoes and satin dresses have a more unattractive glow than a shiny nose...
...society from the abuses of bad labor leadership. It is also natural that employers--who are sponsoring the three referenda--should attempt to capitalize on a few instances of labor racketeering by using them as a springboard for all-out anti-labor offensive. In their zeal to eliminate certain patent abuses, however, the reformers and the electorate may bring to life a whole new set of labor problems which foment bad union-management relations and prove detrimental to employers, labor, and the entire community...
...patent office granted Edwin W. Helberg of Chicago and Vernon C. Helberg, of Evergreen Park, Ill., a patent on a rapid-fire magazine-loading pea shooter...
...inventor of the Vitascope (film projector), which paved the way for the modern movie industry; in Washington. He regarded his invention as "just a side issue" and agreed to let Thomas A. Edison's name be attached to it for commercial reasons (but Armat got rich on the patent rights). Last March Hollywood awarded him a special Oscar for the "debt...