Word: patent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many Americans, the months since March have seen the rapid decline of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. The result of the censure debate will only be anti-climax for these people. The abuses of McCarthy are so patent, they believe, that only one conclusion is possible: censure. Because the Senate proceedings seem likely to run against him, and have temporarily halted his scattergun investigations, many wishful focus of the Senator have written him off as a political dead duck...
...paying dividends, his company would plow back its earnings into new projects that would pay off investors in capital gains as they grew. Both ideas have been so successful that Nation al Research has blossomed from a $50,000 investment into a $4,500,000 research company, with 150 patent applications and profitable tie-in agreements with seven big companies using its discoveries. Last week National Research helped to launch two more big companies in new fields...
Back home, Litchfield designed the first successful U.S. pneumatic tire, got a patent, and put Goodyear in production. By 1906 he was back in Britain, and this time Goodyear won. Says Litchfield: "That's when we really started to go." By 1916 Goodyear's sales overtook its biggest competitors, Goodrich and Diamond, even though they merged to fend off Goodyear. With the tire business booming, Litchfield soon started exploring other fields, made the first U.S. Navy blimps and balloons in World War I, later tried its hand at dirigibles. In World War II the company...
...example of advanced arrogance there is none to beat Clifton Webb. He sneers with such patent grandeur that, in Laura, one would never suspect that just before he had been a partially aging, and totally opened a career for him that found its peak in the now Waldo Lydekker, raconteur, bonvivant and egomaniac, opened a career for hom that found its peak in the now legendary Lynn Belvedere...
Died. Aw Boon Haw, 72, fabulously wealthy Hong Kong Chinese (donations to charity alone: $20 million) of a heart ailment; in Honolulu. Son of a Rangoon herb dealer, genial Philanthropist Haw parlayed a patent medicine named Tiger Balm into an Asian empire embracing hotels, breweries, factories and a string of newspapers; spent his money building more than 300 schools and hospitals (his announced goal: 1,100), promoting Chinese nationalism (he gave the Chungking government $4,000,000 to aid in the war against Japan) and ornamenting his showpiece estates in Hong Kong and Singapore...