Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cultural Note. In Washington, a patent was awarded to the inventor of an ultraviolet-ray device that 1) makes empty seats in a movie house visible, 2) gives the audience a gentle ultraviolet bath during the show...
Hero. In Washington, a patent was awarded to the inventor of a handbag with a translucent bottom, which makes it possible for a woman to discover what is in the bag by holding it up to the light, instead of disemboweling it on a restaurant table...
...Tricks. Back in 1821 the first fire fighter in the family, James Boyd, invented the first rubber-lined cotton hose to replace the riveted leather hose then in use. He proudly received a patent signed by President James Monroe himself. Ever since, the Boyds have been inventing and manufacturing equipment to fight fires. To learn the tricks, unbookish Mr. Boyd left the University of Pennsylvania (he was having too much fun to bother about graduating anyway), and went to work in his father's businesses, James Boyd & Brother, and National Fire Protection Co. He decided to think...
...acceptable consort, happens on Transcontinental Pilot Robert Cummings. Miss de Havilland and Pilot Cummings exchange some rather rare wheezes about his ability to perpetuate the royal line and she decides he is just what she needs. Then the picture shifts to Washington for what is getting to be a patent Warner Bros, windup. It seems that President Roosevelt has avuncular feelings toward the princess, so he invites her to the White House. When Pilot Cummings realizes that his marriage will mean the loss of his U.S. citizenship, a quarrel develops. President Roosevelt is treated with Warners' usual restraint; only...
...Pins were also handmade, and cost about 15? apiece; as late as 1843 the U.S. Patent Office report called excited attention to a pin-making machine...