Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vertigo. When flying by instruments alone was scoffed at, he built a little black box full of indicators which not only made blind flying simple but two years ago led the Army to require it of every flyer in the service. Congress appropriated $1,000 to buy up his patent. But last week at Ft. Sam Houston, Major Ocker, oldest pilot in the Army in point of service, was summoned to appear before a court-martial. Charge: insubordination-by using improper language to a superior officer (96th Article of War). Major Clyde C. Johnston had examined Pilot Ocker at Kelly...
...Your Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have signified their readiness subject to the approval of parliament to accept the recommendations of the Royal Commission and have detailed proposals for carrying those recommendations into effect, now therefore Your Majesty may graciously be pleased to, suspend the letters patent under the great seal and to issue new letters patent which should provide for the administration of the island until such time as it may become self-supporting again on the basis of the recommendations which are contained in the report of the Royal Commission and of which a summary...
...obvious enough. Intelligent study, whether in arts or in sciences, demands ready access to great quantities of material not available in English. Beyond this practical consideration is the need to widen the intellectual horizon of the student through a mastery of the thought and expression of another race. More patent, perhaps, and more often questioned is the habit of mental exactness which the study of a foreign syntax develops. The present requirements fulfill all but the last of these needs very imperfectly; the standards of knowledge are not sufficiently advanced to insure command of any foreign language either...
Such a bill is now pending before a Senate subcommittee and has received general and well merited approbation. It is consequently most unfortunate that its success should be seriously threatened at this time by a vigorous lobby backed by the patent medicine manufacturers. With a rather surprising naivete they allege that if they are forced to tell the truth about their products they cannot sell them; thus even in the presentation of their defense they indict themselves. The power of these men is not to be underestimated. They have extremely influential connections in the financial and industrial worlds, the powerful...
...Republic" in reviewing the case points out that the best defense which Roosevelt can offer to this insidious assault is to publicize the affair ruthlessly, for the very nature of their business makes it impossible for the patent people to fight in the open. If these tactics are used it should be possible to end the victimization of the public by "cures" that are not only useless but very often harmful as well...