Word: patent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Costs. Part of the blame for the new cold front can be laid to a few U.S. businessmen who did indeed charge up to 30% for patent rights on everything from cowboy hats to rubber falsies, at a time when Japanese businessmen would pay any price to get back into world markets. But the fact is that U.S. industrial tie-ups pulled Japan out of the rubble, filled a ten-year research gap and boosted the nation's export potential...
...Shot. Dean Pope also gave the back of his hand to the "peace-of-mind cult." He objects to identifying Christianity with it, no matter how popular it is or how many people claim to have been helped. "The mambo is popular, and innumerable people have been helped by patent medicines, hospitals and social-work programs, but not every popular or helpful thing is to be described as Christian or presented under Christian auspices...
...view of these patent dangers, it is distressing that the United Sates Post Office will soon ask Congress for even more effective controls over imported Soviet publications. When the request is made Congress should not widen the Post Office's censorship powers, but should instead take this opportunity to annul them...
...Commission may well sink even further into the political mire; full-scale development of atomic power for industrial purposes will challenge commissioners with potent new problems. Through its power over the licensing of atomic facilities, the allocation of atomic materials, and patent policy, the Commission will play a dominant role in determining the course of that development. Unless the agency recaptures public respect, its decisions can open the way for political brawling that will dwarf the Dixon-Yates struggle...
Such an ideal has caused Housemasters, deans, and tutors yearly to deny or minimize the actual variations in the Houses. But their warnings have largely gone unheeded, for the real differences are patent and widely discussed. While 36 percent of the whole College is on the Dean's List, one of the Houses has 43 percent of its members on the list, while another has only 29 percent. The lower ranking House finds it almost impossible to acquire tutors, who are discouraged by the prospect of ministering to weak academic groups. The familiar story of the tutor in one House...