Word: patently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yaleman Garland went to Pittsburgh's Shady Side Academy, but his financial progress ran roughly parallel to valuation placed on his patent, which he acquired for $500 in stock. By easy stages this pat ent was written up to $7,500, then to $1,000,000, again to $3,250,000 and finally to a good round $32,500,000. At that point Yaleman Garland left Automatic Signal to Professor Fisher, taking off for a land of pure corporate romance. This he populated with no less than 30 companies, the functions of which were even vaguer than their assets...
...among Hawkeye followers as Wash Tubbs, after the stubby comic strip character of that name. Eighteen years a coach, he can best be identified nationally as the inventor of the quick-kick, as one of the first to conduct summer schools for coaches, and as the holder of lucrative patent rights to valveless, seamless footballs and basketballs and elastic ribbed football pants. All-Americans Ernie Nevers of Stanford and Pat Boland of Minnesota first took grid-iron lessons from him in Superior, Wis. Pat accompanies him from Miami University to act as Hawkeye line coach...
Sales of drugs comprise 55% of Walgreen Co. business, but drugs to Walgreen mean not only prescriptions and patent medicines but all of more than 13,000 items not sold at cigar counters and soda fountains, including sunsuits, liquor, radios, alarm clocks, golf balls. Prescriptions account for only 2½ of total sales, proprietary medicines 30%. Like every other chain store, Walgreen favors its own brands.- However, a customer asking for a nationally-advertised product always gets it, usually at a lower price than anywhere else in the neighborhood. Motto of the 20th-century general store: "You're always...
...near Harper's Ferry, Va. On one bump the ship fell about 300 ft., pitching two of the passengers against the roof so violently that they had to be taken back to Washington at once and sent to a hospital. Last week these two-George P. Kimmel, Washington patent lawyer, and Homer J. Byrd, Illinois State Superintendent of Registration & Education-were in court demanding $200,000 damages from the airline.* They contended the pilot should have warned them to fasten their safety belts. The airline retorted that the weather had not been bad, that bumps often come without warning...
MEET YOURSELF AS You REALLY ARE-Prince Leopold Loewenstein &. William Gerhardi-Lippincott ($2). A Freudian parlor game, the ingenious patent of an amateur psychologist and a sometimes witty English novelist (Memoirs of a Polyglot, Resurrection...