Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like patent-medicine manufacturers, the Oxford Groups of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman esteem testimonials. From their London and Manhattan headquarters they send out batches of statements from the great and the near-great, praising their trademarked remedy-or at least denouncing the ills it is meant to cure...
...feel (though subpoenaed) like voluntary bugs on a slide instead of the quarry in a witch-hunt. His program first called up big bugs from the motors and glass industries-Edsel Ford, William Knudsen, George A. Ball, William Levis-to be examined scientifically with special reference to their patent and sales practices as typical U. S. industrial phenomena...
...witness said his company would license its patents to "anyone who wants to use them." Not since 1909 had it brought a patent infringement suit...
...Rightist. In the past few weeks Cartoonist Sennep has surprised them with an anti-Fascist campaign in the daily Epoque. Last week he avowed: "It's true I've taken more digs at Left politicians but that's because they are so much funnier to draw." Patent-leather smooth, dark, fat, affable J. Sennep's real name is Jean-Jacques Charles Pennes. One brother, General Roger Pennes, is a bigwig in the Air Ministry. After serving through the War in the infantry, Jean Pennes went to work for the Royalist Action Francaise, was first assigned...
...Henry D. Perky was granted a patent on machinery for manufacturing his "pillow shape" Shredded Wheat Biscuits. When the patent expired 17 years later, Kellogg Co. began making a whole-wheat biscuit: ten years later it made this biscuit frankly similar to Shredded Wheat in shape & size. By 1929 Kellogg had sold plenty of its pillow-shape biscuits. That year National Biscuit...