Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offering their amendments, Knowland asked for unanimous consent to limit debate. The filibustering bloc warned him that they would not stand for a knife at their throats, and Knowland backed down. An amendment to kill all domestic portions of the bill was beaten. Then an amendment to modify the patent features of the bill and extend the licensing period on atomic inventions from five to ten years was passed...
Harry Ferguson, 69, waspish, Irish-born inventor of farm machinery who once settled a patent suit against Ford out of court for $9,250,000, resigned as board chairman and director of Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd. of Toronto, Canada, which was formed only last October by the merger of Canada's Massey-Harris Co. and a group of Britain's Harry Ferguson companies. Ferguson announced that he will devote himself to "new inventions-outside the agricultural field" (reportedly a cheap "people's car"). James Duncan, 61, president of Massey-Harris-Ferguson, took over the title of board...
...rugged, swashbuckling predecessor, Royce G. Martin (onetime paymaster for Pancho Villa), who died minutes after his horse Goyamo ran in the 1954 Kentucky Derby (TIME, May 10). Falvey joined Auto-Lite in 1934, when it bought out Moto-Meter Gauge and Equipment Corp., for which he was patent attorney. He built up Auto-Lite's legal and patent division, rose to vice president for industrial relations...
Another jet-reversing system will be manufactured by Aerojet-General Corp. under agreement with the French owners of the patent. It has no moving parts, only a cylindrical stock of rings behind the end of the tailpipe. In normal flight, the gases pass through the center of the rings. When the pilot wants to stop quickly on landing, he opens a valve, and a blast of air from the engine's compressor shoots down a pipe running through the tailpipe and is released at about right angles into the center of the stream of gases. This diverts the gases...
...Communist "sovereignty" will be equally unreal. The East German government, cracked a British Foreign Office man, "will now be completely free to follow the directives it receives from Moscow." Washington called the Soviet maneuver a "sheer façade"; Bonn termed it "a booby trap." Yet for all its patent falseness, the Soviet move was not to be quipped away. In a week when pique and punctilio made a tragicomic opera of Western efforts to enlist West German arms (see below), the Kremlin was boldly reaching out on three fronts-military, diplomatic and psychological...