Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fink took out his chromium-plate patent in 1926, eventually assigned it to United Chromium, Inc. of Manhattan. Few months ago United Chromium heard that General Motors Corp. was helping itself to the Fink process, indignantly entered suit against GM and two other defendants. They did not deny using the Fink process but argued instead that some details of the Fink process were of dubious merit, that other chromium-platers had preceded Dr. Fink anyway...
Novelist Hugh Seymour Walpole, arriving on the lie de France in Manhattan on his way to Hollywood to help film Oliver Twist, regaled ship newsmen with an account of how a patent medicine had cured his arthritis: "I went into a London hospital where they pulled out all my teeth and did a lot of other things to me. Nothing seemed to do much good, though. One day my manservant brought me a sinister-looking bottle-it looked like a wine bottle-and on it was written 'Kleano'. I was ready to try anything. I took...
...bolt upright in surprise when War Office Secretary Douglas Hacking announced that His Majesty's Government are abandoning the U. S.-invented Lewis automatic rifle in favor of the "superior" Czechoslovak-invented Bren submachine gun. This will be made in Britain under a patent agreement as with the Lewis gun. For heavier work the Army will continue to use standard British machine guns turned out by Vickers...
...sooner was General Coxey, 81, nominated than he started on his campaign-in the vehicle by which he had arrived, a patent medicine truck, from which he sells a concoction of his own making called "Cox-E-Lax" for $1.25 per bottle (see cut). Heading in the general direction of the Pacific Northwest, he promised in the 16 months before election to peddle "Cox-E-Lax" in every one of the 48 States, talk "mostly on money...
...Patent Office refused an application for a stove patent because Emanuel Swedenborg had invented an identical stove 200 years before. The unlucky stove-inventor was one of a myriad of scientists & inventors anticipated by this versatile 18th Century Swede. When his 60-odd scientific books & pamphlets were finally collected and examined toward the end of the 19th Century it was discovered that Swedenborg had been ahead of his time in almost every field of science. He invented an ear-trumpet and mercury air pump, sketched a submarine, airplane, machine gun, fire extinguisher, steam engine. He propounded the nebular hypothesis before...