Word: patent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANTITRUST SUITS by six companies against United Shoe Machinery Corp. may be settled out of court since United has paid $1,400,000 and some patent rights to get one of them dropped. Still pending are multimillion-dollar monopoly damage claims against United by Allied, International and Rapid shoe machinery companies, Hanover Shoe Co. and W. B. Coon...
...Boston's Dr. Robert Edward Gross, then 33, operated successfully to eliminate a patent ductus arteriosus-a tubular connection between pulmonary artery and aorta that normally closes soon after birth. Falling back on Alexis Carrel's brilliant experiments in the early 1900s, which showed that arteries if handled properly can be cut apart and stitched together again, with or without an intervening graft, Gross next developed an operation to cut out an abnormal narrowing (coarctation) of the aorta...
Three to Watch. By one method or another, heart surgeons can now correct an impressive number of defects, including patent ducts, narrowing of the aorta, aneurysms (ballooning blisters) of the aorta, holes between the walls of either auricles or ventricles, scarred and narrowed valves. Three problems are getting special attention...
...selling off the property of a Penn-Texas subsidiary, Colt's Patent Firearms of Hartford, Conn., Silberstein raised $2,000,000 in cash, then leased back the plant at $231,264 a year for 20 years-or a total...
Died. Carl Byoir, 68, onetime patent-medicineman (Nuxated Iron, Seedol, Kelpamalt), who in 1930 founded Carl Byoir & Associates, built the firm into one of the U.S.'s most successful publicity and propaganda mills; of cancer; in Manhattan. Drumbeater Byoir pounded out copy for all comers (among the early beneficiaries of his press-agentry: Trigger-happy Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado, Nazi Germany's Tourist Information Office, President Roosevelt's Birthday Balls for infantile paralysis), in 1946 was fined $5,000 in a federal court for conspiring with the A. & P. chain-store firm to violate the Sherman Anti...