Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advanced as the principal argument for buying a certain article, the impression is created that, aside from patriotism, the article is not the "best buy." Many of the stamp-canceling machines in British postoffices which brand envelopes with "Buy British" were made in the U. S. -On grounds of patent and trade mark infringement General Electric Co. obtained an injunction in San Francisco last week, restraining Heyman & Co. from importing Japanese electric light bulbs, announced that it planned similar action against other importers...
...stringent entrance policy may be due to an unavoidable fluctuation but most on servers feel that as long as these men are cooped together in Shepherd and Claverly Halls and are confronted with the obstacles of College indifference and group lassitude, that failure will be inevitable. There are patent signs in Dean Hanford's report, and in dean Leighton's supplementary suggestion for a more personal contact between Freshman adviser and advisee, that first year men have been temporarily relegated to the hinterland. There is certainly much to be done in this field; but it is of prime importance that...
...advertising in Grit. The paper has prospered on circulation profits, but Benton & Bowles advertising agency discovered by the way Grit readers responded to a jelly-making contest last autumn that it should be an excellent medium for household advertising. Thus far Grit's advertising has been predominantly the tawdry patent medicine type. Excerpt from an advertisement of "The Medicine Man" in the anniversary issue: "An Indian Chief told my Father that a tea made by taking two teaspoonsful of Coltsfoot would cure bleeding lungs...
When William Ziff first entered the field Negro papers carried little national advertising except hair-straightener, a few cosmetics, patent medicines. Now the list includes Camel cigarets, Bond Bread. Rumford Baking Powder, Bayer's Aspirin, Blue Ribbon Malt, Gillette Razors, Lifebuoy Soap...
...Milbank Memorial Fund, New York Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Julius Rosenwald Fund, Russell Sage Foundation, Twentieth Century Fund, Social Science Research Council, Vermont Commission on County Life. *Including "$125,000,000 . . . spent for the services of osteopaths, chiropractors, naturopaths and allied groups, and faith healers, and $360,000,000 for patent medicines. Much of the former sum and practically all of the latter are wasted...