Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctors were amazed, but nonetheless swam with the tide of publicity and patients. They opened auxiliary clinics at Los Angeles and Long Beach. They went before a Senate committee to argue for Government aid for cancer research. They gained a patent for their extract.* Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners, widow of the Buffalo ship owner, newspaper publisher and political boss, William James ("Fingy") Conners, gave Drs. Coffey & Humber her $1,000,000 estate, "The Monastery," at Huntington, L. I. (TIME...
...Chicago, "Old Doc" Robert Martin, itinerant Negro patent medicine seller, was urging his nostrum upon a Mrs. Eliza Murphy. Said he: "Madam, it is the greatest discovery since radium. ... It will make a new woman of you. ... I can recommend it because I take it myself. . . . Look at me: the picture of health!" He gasped, reeled, fell dead...
...nucleus of last week's deal. Competition between U. S. Steel and Bethlehem has lately become more intense. Steelmen are especially aware that in 1926 U. S. Steel began to manufacture solid flange beams by the so-called Gray Process, which Bethlehem controlled. A $250,000,000 patent suit followed, was settled out of court in 1929, with Bethlehem granting U. S. Steel the right to use the process. This enabled American Bridge to compete better with other fabricators who bought Bethlehem's beams in which the Gray Process was used. The competition became more visible when Bethlehem sought...
...Among other little Codgerisms of mine has been the invention of and introduction to the entire world (including the States, through my old friend Mr. Eugene Peton, President of the Patent Scaffolding Co. of New York) of the quaint little old tubular steel scaffoldings you may have seen disfiguring or otherwise your fine buildings here and there...
...semester is ample time for presenting the material that is contained in that particular course. Where the material has been found to be too extensive for this amount of time the course has often been made a full one. English 32 is a case in point. A less patent benefit derived from half courses is that they are often a means of preventing a whole year being wasted if a student misses work the first semester on account of a forced absence...