Word: patent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington, the Government announced that patent No. 2,540,144 had been granted to Engineer-Inventor Emery Stern for a device which will "automatically release" various scents from containers built into TV sets. Set off by electrical impulses, the odors are intended to be appropriate to the type of program, e.g., peach blossom for romance...
Jerry Kilty's Falstaff is superb. He dominates the stage with his boisterous amiability, and his cowardice is so patent that it almost seems a virtue. Perhaps it is the sympathy which Kilty arouses that makes Hal's rejection of him even harder to accept than usual...
...State Senator Dudley J. Le-Blanc is a stem-winding salesman who knows every razzle-dazzle switch in the pitchman's trade. By resorting to most of them during the past six months, he has managed each month to sell more than 2,000,000 bottles of a patent medicine called Hadacol (TIME, June 19). A spectacular, three-dimensional display in New York's Grand Central Station and sensational advertising gimmicks in other big cities proclaim the "merits" of the mixture, which consists of B vitamins, honey, iron, phosphorous and calcium, all shaken up in a 24-proof...
...said, has gulled the 52 nations sharing in the police action in Korea. .Shrilled Wu to the 52, in a patent move to splinter the already divided U.N. majority: "Do not be taken in by the U.S., do not pull the chestnuts out of the fire for the U.S.-because . . . you must bear the consequences of your actions...
...splendid isolation of the large Department of Commerce auditorium in Washington. The busy lawyers and technical experts often outnumbered the spectators-usually a few leg-weary tourists. The testimony of engineers, executives and experts fills 40 volumes and 11,178 pages covering everything from RCA's patent position (which is well-nigh impregnable) to the precise emphasis Frank Stanton placed on "love" when he said he loved compatibility...