Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Painful and blasphemous as the suggestion would have been to 125 pious folk meeting in Detroit last week, the fact remains that in most U. S. minds Emanuel Swedenborg and his doctrines are sadly confused with advice to the married, physical culture, Rosicrucianism and patent can-openers. That is because most citizens have met the great Scandinavian savant only as a tiny picture in the back pages of popular magazines, tucked away in one-inch advertisements offering HEAVEN AND HELL, "632 page book treating of the Life after Death...
...even other Times cameramen know what is inside Jimmy Northmore's "Magic Eye' which he hopes his superiors will patent and manufacture for exclusive Hearstpaper use. He shops for his film at a different drug store every day, admits he uses 12-exposure Kodak film, so spliced as to make 48 exposures...
...Hayes's latest nostrum is Marmola, a tablet containing thyroid substance, which he markets over drugstore patent medicine counters as a cure for obesity. Like all thyroid preparations, Marmola may cause a user to drop dead, or cripple control his heart, unless a physician stands by to control the dosage and reduction in weight. Vainly various agencies have tried to stop the sale of Marmola. Last week the Federal Communications Commission tried its hand by threatening to take licenses away from 21 radio stations from Rochester to San Francisco, Los Angeles to Miami, if they did not cease broadcasting...
...glee club of 40, directed by David Redwood who works in the die room at the forge plant. Hudson has a glee club and a band. General Motors has an orchestra and a chorus of 400, some of them foundrymen, some division managers, some electroplaters and one a patent attorney. Buick men sing in the Industrial Mutual Association Glee Club in Flint. Ford has no chorus, no orchestra of its own but boys in the Henry Ford Trade School are proud of their German Band. Ford uses the regular Detroit Symphony for its radio concerts...
...Patent attorneys are unaware of any widespread false number racket. Anyone can sue the manufacturer who falsifies a patent number. Penalty: $100 and costs, half of which goes to the Government. Much simpler, and far more common, is the practice of applying for a patent and marking the product "Patent Pending," even when the maker has neither hope nor intention of getting a patent...