Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...harvested a fortune of $300,000, and raised two spunky sons. But black-tempered John Cozad was too powerful for his own good-and power tends to corrupt those who lack, as well as those who wield it. Settler jealousy festered into hatred. When Cozad, in patent self-defense, gunned down a knife-flashing enemy, he had to skip town to avoid a lynching...
...their persons." As late as the 18th century, when residents of Edinburgh threw slops from fifth-floor bedchambers with the cry "Gardy-loo!" (from the French gardez I'eau, or watch out for the water), Europe's sanitary arrangements consisted of ordure without decorum. The first British patent for a water closet was not taken out until 1775, although da Vinci had designed one nearly three centuries earlier...
Evans has a patent on the flavor enzymes, and many ideas as to how best to use them. Immediate suggestion is to treat the food with enzymes just after processing. Further in the future is a collection of packaged flavor enzymes with which housewives can revive flavorless foods...
Open-and-Shut Case. In Munich, West Germany, just before he was arrested, Franz Osterholzer, boss of a gang of car thieves that stole $190,000 worth of vehicles in the last four years, filed application for a patent for a "100% safe" device for preventing cars from being stolen...
...offices rather than the old-time politicians. The businessmen are answering the call and carrying in with them under their arms business methods and business maims. Among the revolutionary theories propounded is that of Mr. Davis, Secretary of Labor--that it will pay to advertise politics as well as patent medicine...