Word: patents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago Congress authorized the Patent Office to turn over models of old inventions to the Smithsonian Institution and give away or destroy all models not wanted by the museum. More than 2,000 requests for old models have been made. The longest request was from Thomas A. Edison-five closely typed pages listing all his early inventions. Henry Ford made a blanket request for all mechanical engineering devices not wanted by the Government...
...upon in labor troubles (in coal mining, etc.), in the settlement of War Debts (he is one of the Debt Funding Commission); he is Chairman of the St. Lawrence Waterway Commission; he is an expert on economic conditions in Europe and the Orient. The Bureau of Mines and the Patent Office were recently transferred to his control. He will probably have a controlling voice in Government policy towards commercial aviation. Last week a civil committee, appointed by him without anyone's urging and long before Colonel Mitchell stirred up the President's Air Craft Inquiry Board, reported...
...from the ridiculous. And now his eroticism of the book which, unbelieving and unregenerate to the country, has earned a prize of thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars should going precise attention. True, he is not the first to remark the trend toward folklore, toward the saga which is so patent to observing eyes. But in defining as good, as strong. "Wild Geese." Miss good, Miss Martha Ostenso's first novel he professor a firm, belief in the esoteric simple, a belief which will always continue the fundament on which drama must be built...
...Inventor LeRoy neglected to patent his machine. Others copied, patented, reaped. When William Fox opened a moving picture emporium in 14th Street, the scheme was still so much of a novelty that Inventor LeRoy asked: "Do you think this will be a success...
...Under its new powers for restricting its calendar, the Court refused to review a number of cases. The action in refusing review was of course equivalent to a decision against the appellant, since the decision of the lower court remained in force. Among the cases refused review were two patent suits and an appeal of the Kansas City Southern Railway against a valuation of its property made by the Interstate Commerce Commission...