Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Kalgan said that the local heroin plant produced enough each day (50 kilograms) to supply 15 times the world's legitimate needs. In Peiping, Tientsin and other cities, the Japs opened hundreds of opium dens with signs proclaiming "Good Taste . . . High Quality . . . Comfortable Beds." They peddled narcotic patent medicines for females, narcotic candy for children. Degradation reached a nadir in Mukden's red-light alleys, where dying addicts were commonly dumped on rubbish heaps...
Great Day. In Washington, the Alien Property Custodian announced that he would dispose of a patent for soap guaranteed to leave the bathtub ringless...
Married. Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, fiftyish flapper with an apparently perpetual patent of nubility; and Anthony Easton, fortyish, wealthy, British-born inventor (automatic radio distress signal); she for the fifth time (and last, she said), he for the second; in Manhattan...
...familiar Arnold charge: violation of the antitrust laws. The two defendants, Arnold claimed, had tried to "prevent mass distribution" of the Reynolds pen until they could 1) get rid of their own obsolete stocks, and 2) produce a ballbearing pen of their own on the basis of patent rights acquired from Laszlo Joszef Biro of Argentina (TIME...
Professor Rand pointed out that Hitler's program for Germany represented "a patent threat to the spirit and form of our government and to the whole American way of life...