Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editors. Editor Tom Wallace of the Louisville Times scoffed : "We city slickers used to laugh at the patent outsides and insides. Much of the material ... is deemed necessary to good business on the theory that our readers demand fiddle-faddle about Broadway after dark, Hollywood before daylight, Paris after absinthe, and Washington from the backstairs." The other writer was the Society of Newspaper Editors' second vice president, Managing Editor Marvin H. Creager of the Milwaukee Journal. What irritated him most was not Washington from the back stairs but Washington from the official front steps: "Another member of President Roosevelt...
...public. In 1908 old Thomas Mellon died on his 95th birthday but he had long outlived his money-making days-Son Andrew and Son Dick, who worked with him, were at the height of their powers, building up the Mellon banks, building up Gulf Oil, building Aluminum Co. Patent struggles had threatened their aluminum monopoly but they bought out contenders whom they could not beat at law. As their patents expired they fortified their monopoly by other means-acquired all the available bauxite deposits in the U. S. and South America, pre-empted cheap waterpower sites at Niagara...
...bride in this marriage was A. H. Diebold's Sterling Products, which came from a different sort of family. Sterling did no retailing hut manufactured a large assortment of patent medicines which it had bought up in the course of years. It made Cascarets, Danderine, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria, Bayer's Aspirin (bought from the Alien Property Custodian in 1919), Mum, California Syrup of Figs, etc. It was evident in the beginning that the marriage between these two parties could never be complete. For Sterling would have lost much of its market...
There is a general distinction between U. S. and European scientists which became patent last week when five Nobel Laureates from Europe* joined two from the U. S.† at the convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Chicago. Americans work primarily with instruments. Europeans with imagination. Thus Danish Niels Bohr's philosophizing about the unmeasurable duality of Nature before the A. A. A. S. was a fascinating novelty which his audience tried hard to understand...
...Satevepost earned a penny he had poured $1,000,000 into it, largely in advertising and promotion. Once he bought a full page in the New York Sun to catch the eye of a big potential advertiser in Manhattan who had refused to listen to Curtis advertising salesmen. Of patent medicine advertising, Publisher Curtis would have none, and once in the old days, when there was no money to meet the month's payrolls, he is said to have returned a check for $18,000 to a would-be advertiser of medicines. Cigaret advertising also was taboo (Mr. Curtis...