Word: patent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mailed request to the Chamber was on Order No. (01-600) 52-2274, based on Requisition No. LB 52-107, payable from Allotment No. 5723400 266-1443 P443-09 501-605. A four-page contract included with the order warned the Chamber about such things as discrimination in employment, patent infringements, the Eight-Hour Law of 1912. Five pages of Additional General Provisions dealt with contract termination, labor disputes and the loading, bracing and blocking of freight cars. A pink slip pointed out that a variation of 10% in the quantity ordered would be unacceptable, but paragraph...
POLITICAL NOTES $250,000 on the Bed Dudley J. LeBlanc, who peddled patent medicine (Hadacol) with a sideshow of dancing girls and other razzle-dazzle, is now selling Dudley J. LeBlanc with some of the same techniques. Last week, LeBlanc, a Louisiana state senator, and Lieutenant Governor William J. Dodd, both candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor of Louisiana, talked about forming a combined ticket. One would run for governor, the other for lieutenant governor. The Hadacol baron, who had just sold his business for $8,200,000,* proposed that each put up $250,000 to finance the campaign...
Hadacol, in the words of its concocter, Dudley J. LeBlanc, is a dark brown patent medicine that tastes bad. Until the Federal Trade Commission told him to tone down, Medicine Man LeBlanc spent millions of dollars in advertising to imply that his mixture of B vitamins, minerals and honey, all bathed in alcohol, would cure almost everything. He also has a corps of gagsters turning out jingles and jokes insinuating that Hadacol is an aphrodisiac. In dry southern states, Hadacol has another virtue; its 24-proof alcoholic content makes it just the thing for binges. Medicine Man LeBlanc, who prefers...
...these wondrous virtues, spread in newspapers and on billboards and blared from radios and from a 17-car railroad caravan of patent medicine men and entertainers (e.g., Chico Marx, Mickey Rooney, Carmen Miranda) have made Hadacol the world's biggest selling "tonic." In four years-and on an investment of only $2,500-LeBlanc's sales have jumped from $75,000 to an estimated $25 million this year...
Howe won in court (and collected royalties on every Singer machine made until his patent expired), but Singer won in the market place. Teamed up with a shrewd New York lawyer named Edward Clark, Singer turned out a home model for $125 (average U.S. family income in the 1850s: $500), began one of the world's first installment plans to buy machines. By the time Singer died in 1875, his company was a $22-million-a-year business. Commented Publisher Louis Antoine Godey of Lady's Book, America's first fashion magazine: "Next to the plough...