Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tigrett about a new toy. It was simply a roll of paper on a stick. With a flick of the wrist the paper coil would shoot five feet into the air and snap back into position. Tigrett, an easygoing Southerner who had long made a hobby of buying up patents, tracked down the inventor, bought his patent for $100 plus royalties, and started producing the gadget in a small Chicago shop. Since then, 38-year-old John Tigrett has sold 15 million "Zoomerangs," and built a $2,000,000 annual toy business. This week fast-growing Toyman Tigrett...
...employees of Chang Kuo-liang, known for years in Shanghai as the Lungyen King. At his Unsurpassed Prosperity Shop at the corner of Canton and Fukien Roads, Chang had long sold the best dragon's-eyes or lungyen nuts (something like lichees) in the city, together with two patent medicines of his own invention: Ginseng Lung-yen Tonic Syrup and another lungyen tonic for menstrual troubles. Through wars, revolutions and even the Japanese occupation, Chang had prospered, planting his profits in Shanghai real estate and running his business on traditionally paternalistic lines. His seven employees had all been with...
...collars, castration clamps and animal feed (now reinforced with antibiotics). But there is also a choice of hors d'oeuvres dishes, television lamps and artificial eyelashes. The flamboyant old descriptions ("Astonishing Offer," "Biggest Bargain Ever," "The Best Cream Separator made in the World") have been toned down, and patent medicines virtually abolished. Instead of ads for rubber and celluloid collars and mustache cups, there are now lists of lipstick, perfume and hormone creams -plus 37 pages of foundation garments ("I dreamed I went shopping at Sears for more Maidenform bras"). Most expensive item: diamonds...
Eight Hours at Sea. Howe's impatience led him into a dangerous spot in late 1940. When war orders were delayed by the reluctance of British firms to release patent rights, Howe sailed for Britain on the liner Western Prince to break the bottleneck. In the North Sea the ship was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. One of Howe's chief aides, Gordon Scott, was killed at his side. Howe and other survivors drifted for eight hours in a lifeboat before being rescued. At the dockside in Britain, a newsman asked Howe whether his whole life...
...state began taking notice of Fisher's experimental substation near Lubbock. The first sample of 2,4,5-T for tests on mesquite ("just enough to put in your hat") was delivered to him in 1945 by Dow Chemical Co. Later American Chemical Paint, which holds the original patent on 2,4,5-T, and Du Pont joined in. Today all three firms manufacture the chemical. Fisher started testing it on 80 five-acre plots, went on to larger areas which he sprayed from a plane at leafing time. In three to ten days, the leaves yellowed. The following...