Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every day the flour quotations by the mills vary exactly in accord with the cost of wheat and the changing value of bran and shorts. We had a man in our office this morning from the mill at Columbus, Neb. He said they were selling best patent flour in local lots delivered to retailers at $1.20 per 48-lb. sack. Standard grade 10? less. Best patent flour is retailing in Columbus today for $1.35 to $1.50 per 48-lb. sack. Spring wheat patents, $1.75 per 48-lb. sack. These facts are applicable to the flour market in any part...
...Army &Navy joint board kept a sort of armed peace between the two flying services by a declaration that there was no substantial duplication between them. In 1929, however, the Army, jealous of the Navy's growing aerial land strength began agitating for a change. The Army's patent purpose was to get for itself the money the Navy was spending on land planes and land bases at Hampton Roads, San Diego, Pearl Harbor and Panama Canal Zone by showing that their operation was not necessary to the fleet...
...from Mexico. Thomas M. Fairborn built a full-sized course on his plantation, had been annoyed by the way grass greens withered and sand greens blew away. He had observed that cottonseed hulls made smooth paths through the plantation, tried them for greens. Nobody pounced upon him. So he patented the idea, now sits atop the patent pyramid. The reason why Mr. Carter sold for only $200,000: he had kept only rights for southern territory, is at the bottom of the pyramid...
...owned the following items, set down the approximate price in dollars and cents for which you would sell them, and the sort of purchaser you would select: (a) Ford coupe which had run 5,000 mi. (b) Basic patent which will reduce the cost cf manufacturing shoes 20? a pair. (c) Secret process for manufacturing a drug which will definitely cure cancer. (d) Ten acres of land in a good farming section of Iowa...
...talkie seems unnecessary. Oldfashioned, stagey, sentimental, it deals heavily with one or two remote social problems and, more immediately, with a young woman who goes to jail for having caused the death of a policeman who was chasing her automobile on his motorcycle. Her conviction is obtained, with patent suffering, by a prosecutor who has fallen in love with her. The absurdities involved in these events are made more obvious by jerky and tasteless direction and not helped much by Claudette Colbert's efforts to take her part seriously. Worst shot: an epileptic having a seizure which, intended...