Word: patents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ever since it was realized by the British public that the king was seriously ill Buckingham Palace has been literally inundated with patent medicines and bottles containing unguents made from hundred-year-old recipes sent by well-wishers for His Majesty's recovery. . . . There are phials containing green, red, and yellow liquids; there are chest pastes made from fruits and flour, there are unguents of crushed ginger and honey which have been handed down in recipe from generation to generation, and there is a whole drawer full of protective amulets sent by villagers from nearly every county in the country...
...pernicious. Others, hailing it as informative, would uphold it. Last July, the Federal Trade Commission conducted a public utility investigation following the acerbities which greeted the political largess of Public Utility Potentate Samuel Insull. That these utilities had spread propaganda throughout the schools of the land was made patent...
Great among steel companies is United States Steel. Great among steel companies is also Bethlehem Steel. Last week these two companies went to war. Bethlehem Steel alleged that U. S. Steel is violating certain of its patents, has been violating these patents for six years. It asks that U. S. Steel be enjoined from further patent-violation, that it pay damages to Bethlehem Steel...
...disputed patents, of which Bethlehem claims to be sole licensee, cover the construction of what is known as the Gray beam. In 1904, one Henry Gray took out patents on this beam, which is rolled from one piece of steel instead of being made from several pieces riveted together. In 1926, U. S. Steel began the construction of a plant in Homestead, Pa., for the making of beams similar to the Gray beams. Thereupon Eugene Gifford Grace, Bethlehem president, announced that the Gray patents were still in force and that the making of Gray beams by a Bethlehem competitor constituted...
Steel. The Krupp Nirosta* Co., formed last week by Krupp Steel Works (Essen, Germany) and Ludlum Steel Co. (Watervliet, N. Y.) is a patent holding and service company for the exchange of Ludlum and Krupp ideas. President Edwin Corning of Ludlum will be chairman of the board of directors. "Licensees" (Central Alloy Steel Co. and Firth Sterling Steel Co.) will share U. S. rights with Ludlum...