Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion picture thrills. Best shot: the Zeppelin nosing through night clouds over London. Not the least talk-provoking thing about Hell's Angels was its producer, young, thin, awkward, very rich, slightly deaf, mentally energetic Howard Hughes, nephew of Novelist Rupert Hughes. His late father controlled a patent on a device necessary to every oil-well drill. With nothing to do. young Hughes became interested in aviation arid the cinema. He produced two successful silent pictures, Two Arabian Knights and The Racket. Then he decided to make a great air picture. He spent $2,000,000 on Hell...
...Publisher. Carl Byoir made a fortune from patent medicines and cosmetics, among them Nuxated Iron and Blondex, etc. He visited Havana in 1928 because he heard the climate would relieve his sinus affliction. Constitutionally unable to remain inactive-or to stomach Cuban bread-he started an "American" bakery. But this could not for long absorb a man who served in Europe on President Wilson's Wartime Committee on Public Information; who after the War was Public Relations Counsel for President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia; who with publicity man Edward L. Bernays, conducted a publicity campaign for the independence...
...people shouted; Sande tipped his cap. Tannery, the horse that all the Southern sports were betting on, was 13th, and the band played "My Old Kentucky Home." Through the grey tissue of the rain it was hard to see what was happening at the post, but the patent stall-gate the starters were using speeded things up. In a minute the line of horses that had been relaxed and flexible in single file became a tight cordon between the fences, its component parts moving so nearly in unison that for a fraction of a second their movement seemed an illusion...
Boston's Louis Kroh Liggett, 55, organized Drug, Inc., two years ago. It is a holding company. Its original purchases were Sterling Products, West Virginia patent medicine makers, and Mr. Liggett's United Drug Co. With the United Drug purchase it acquired 664 Liggett drugstores in the U. S., 38 in Canada and contracts to supply 10,000 Rexall drugstores in the U. S. Besides those U. S. establishments, the United Drug purchase gave Drug, Inc. control of the 860 Boot's Drug Stores in Great Britain...
...Eight. And in prospect is his purchase, through American Home Products Corp. (a third one of the Eight and one in which Mr. Liggett controls some capital stock), of its trademarked preparations of magnesia, digestants, cosmetics, hair tonics, floor wax, varnish remover, patent medicines, toothpaste (including Kolynos). With so many products and so many stores, Drug, Inc. is becoming what Mr. Liggett would privately like to say but publicly disclaims: practically the last as well as definitely the biggest word in U. S. cosmetics and drugs. Some one of his goods is in almost every U. S. medicine chest...