Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pirnie, Simons store are tables stacked with crackers, condensed milk, razor blades, patent medicines, adding machines and other products of U. S. industry. But these articles are not the store's stock in trade. Aided by garish window displays (including large gilded dollars), the store's bright salesmen sell securities listed on the Stock Exchange. Though the store was organized by an old stock salesman, it is now in charge of a seasoned merchandiser who gave it what Pirnie, Simons calls "the Fifth Avenue touch...
...grimy sheds of the Halles Centrales, the central markets of Paris. Tourists returning from the theatres pass long lines of high-wheeled wagons, piled high with cabbages. Few ever notice the long rows of stalls outside the market where weary camelots sell rubber dolls, postcards, hair oil, lace doilies, patent corkscrews...
Died. Joseph Hepenstall Hoover, 75, concocter of patent medicines, President Hoover's uncle; in Pueblo, Colo...
...until 1929. In 1924 Bates had died in France of a paralytic stroke. A Vermonter and Yaleman, consulting engineer at various times for Australia, Russia, Belgium, he was moved to look for a cheaper fuel when his son Lindon Jr. went down on the Lusitania in 1915. His patents, 20 in the U. S., 15 in Canada, including the basic Plauson-Schroeder patent, now belong to another son, Lindell Theodore Bates, Manhattan lawyer. The foreign patents have lapsed...
Baritone Lawrence Sibbett will make himself a flat, broad nose next season. He will clap on a kinky black wig, cork hi. face. He will wear scarlet breeches, light blue coat, patent leather boots, brass spurs and swagger importantly around, showing off his pearl-handled revolver loaded with five ordinary bullets and a special silver one. All of a sudden he will hear the distant beat of tom-toms, 72 to a minute and he will start supposedly into a forest, spend his first bullet at thick of night on formless, brightwood creatures who will mock him. His second bullet...