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Jagan's P.P.P. is favored in the battle of four leftish parties largely because the British gave him two major assists. First, they booted him out of office in 1953 before the people could be disillusioned at his lack of an overall program and his patent lack of administrative ability. Says one rival politician: "He should have been allowed enough rope to hang himself." Thus, to the voters, Jagan is still a martyred hero. Then, after belatedly setting up an $84 million emergency-aid program to quiet rising discontent, the British ruined the effect by slowing down expenditures...
...Murphy beds a year. But the bed became far more than just a commercial success when the budding movie colony saw in it a hilarious prop for slapstick comedy. By the mid-1920s, Murphy and his disappearing bed had beaten off imitators right and left in bitter patent battles; he finally emerged with a fortune and his own distributing company in New York...
...RUBBER PATENT SUIT is being pressed by Government to get B.F. Goodrich Co.'s secret formula for new Ameripol SN synthetic rubber, which is almost same as natural rubber. U.S. says it gave Goodrich more than $1.5 million for synthetic rubber research on condition that discoveries be revealed to all rubber makers. Goodrich claims process was discovered privately by Goodrich-Gulf Chemicals, Inc., in which Goodrich and Gulf Oil Corp. hold 50-50 interest...
...Patented Flowers. The company's dominance of the field comes from the more than half a century of rose-growing and selling experience of President Charles H. Perkins, 67. Apprenticed at twelve to an uncle who founded the company in 1872, Charlie Perkins bought control in 1928, had a rough time during the Depression, which put the company $875,000 in the hole. In 1940 he broke into the mail-order field, encouraged by a new U.S. patent law that allowed the patenting and collection of royalties on new rose varieties. For the first time rosarians had a financial...
...from talent, all great cartoonists need a point of attack from which to enfilade their natural and necessary enemy-the great. Low's point of attack was his own New Zealand background. His Scottish-born father was one of those lovable Victorian cranks-a promoter of religions and patent medicines, and a man who fostered domestic harmony by encouraging intellectual debate. In the raucous, blasphemous, antitraditional political life of New Zealand and Australia, Low found his style, starting at eleven as a cartoonist for dim but gallant little periodicals, then graduating to the rambunctious Sydney Bulletin...