Word: patents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Western Newspaper Union. Many a country newspaper, weekly or daily, appears with its inside pages made up of either boiler plate or patent insides. It is from Western Newspaper Union that most of the boiler plate and the patent insides come. Boiler plate is the trade name for stories and articles (usually of feature or semi-feature character) which are prepared, written and set up by Western Newspaper Union staff. The country editor, low on news, simply takes as much of the boiler plate material as he needs to fill up his issue. Patent insides are somewhat different, pertaining...
...Charles Spencer Chaplin) had been shown in the same series and had not sued. Golfer Tolley retorted: "Cabinet ministers are professionals." The Court agreed, awarded him $5,000 damages. This verdict encouraged attorneys for Helen Wills, who protested the use of her picture, without consent, in some British patent medicine advertisements...
...later fought in the Civil War where he lost an arm in battle and spent nine months in Confederate prisons. The elder Macauley was West Virginia's first Secretary of State. The son went to Lehigh University, took a law degree at George Washington University, became (1895) patent attorney for National Cash Register...
...Admiral Fiske suggested that torpedoes be shot from airplanes, was ignored, went ahead on his own, a year later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...
First step in Radio Corp.'s change from communications to entertainment came with the development of music and voice broadcasting. Endowed with many a vital patent (it has licensed 25 set-makers to manufacture under its patents), Radio Corp. grew with radio, found that Station-to-Home transmission was far more profitable a business than Shore-to-Shore or Ship-to-Shore transmission. In 1921 Radio Corp.'s entertainment business totaled some $1,500,000, or about 36% of the company's total business. In 1922, entertainment totaled same $11,250,000, or about 80% of total...