Word: patent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automated industry made up of dozens of firms that spare no effort to capture another name. This year they will gross close to $1 billion renting names and addresses to anyone who has anything to sell. Lists can be rented with the names of 221,782 doctors, 2,476 patent lawyers, 18 safety-pin makers, 41 zoos, Cadillac owners and every American named Murphy (50,000). On the average, each mailing nets less than a 2% response, but that is enough to pro duce $30 billion in mail sales...
...that blazed the trails of the Western frontier was the famous six-shooter made by Colt's Patent Firearms Mfg. Co. One hundred and twenty-seven years after its founding, Colt is still capable of kicking up dust. After a lengthy dispute within the Pentagon over whether to adopt a new rifle, the Defense Department earlier this month granted Colt, still the nation's largest maker of pistols and revolvers, a $13.3 million order to turn out an ingenious Colt rifle that has already proved its worth on a new frontier: the jungles of South Viet Nam. Originally...
Colt got the M-16 in a roundabout way. The new rifle was invented by a West Coast gunsmith, who sold the patent to the Fairchild Stratos Corp. Not equipped to make guns, Fairchild four years ago sold the rights to Colt, whose know-how quickly worked the bugs out of the gun. Colt needed a going thing. Having fallen on hard times after World War II, the company in 1955 was taken over by Penn-Texas Corp., which later became Fairbanks Whitney. A vast conglomeration of ill-matched companies, Fairbanks Whitney has run through four separate managements...
...gave 1,000,000 stamps to the winner of a sales contest. Electric Storage Battery gives ten stamps for each dollar it saves as the result of an employee's suggestion; it received 589 suggestions in three months, and passes out 3,000,000 stamps a year. A patent-medicine producer called Isodine is surveying the frequency of colds among factory workers by sending 200 stamps a week to plant nurses who report on their cases. A Roman Catholic chaplain at Eastern Correctional Institution at Napanoch, N.Y., is collecting donations of all kinds of stamps to redeem for cash...
This full-dress regalia was first popularized in the 1890s by Prince Albert. It is dominated by a double-breasted frock coat but must also include a white pique shirt with a wing collar, a white pique waistcoat, black trousers with a satin stripe, black patent leather shoes, and a silk top hat. The hat may be stored neatly by collapsing it into a frisbee-like disk...