Word: patents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friendly to the treaty was Maine's Senator Frederick Hale, chairman of the Naval Affairs Com mittee. A Big-Navy man, Senator Hale called his committee together to make an independent inquiry into its effects upon the Navy. The Hale hearings have no official standing, are for the patent pur pose of drumming up treaty opposition, if any, by staging a publicity sideshow. As Witness No. 1, Senator Hale summoned Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, a London delegate, to explain and elucidate. Later would be called Admirals William Veazie Pratt and Hilary P. Jones, naval advisors...
...discards the use of a slit device for limiting the area of photographic sound on a film. Claiming sole rights to this method, and also to the sound-on-film device which employs the slit (Fox Movietone, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO, Paramount), Nakken Corp. has requested an adjudication of patents from the U. S. Patent Office. Last week Warner Brothers-following their policy of pioneering with picture patents-bought 50% of Nakken Corp. stock thus acquiring the use, free from royalty, of all Nakken Patents. If the courts grant Nakken Corp. its patent claims, all other companies using sound...
...First Part," but by the mediocre character of the "Olio" (vaudeville). Producer Kilpatrick's Olio contained a series of antediluvian skits which included a ventriloquist, a female impersonator and some more singing, performed before a splendid example of early American opera-house curtain which bore advertisements for a patent electric belt, a dry goods store, and Mike's saloon. By far the best act in the Olio was not in the oldtime minstrel tradition, but bore the stamp of the modern night club. It was provided by Messrs. Sidney Easton and Bert Howell, whose trick improvisations on ukulele...
Last week Radio Corp. of America approximately doubled its number of shares outstanding, divided its new shares between General Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. In so doing Radio Corp. gave the two electric companies a majority of its stock, and in return received from them patent rights and manufacturing facilities essential to the production of radio sets. Although David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp., called upon President Hoover, presumably in connection with the transaction. and although Senator Clarence C. Dill, Democrat, of Washington demanded an inquiry by the Department of Justice, the connection between General Electric, Westinghouse...
...positions of Radio's Executive Committee Chairman Owen D. Young, or Chairman James G. Harbord or President David Sarnoff. Mr. Sarnoff said that the new arrangement would result in operating economies resulting in cheaper radio sets and tubes and that the stock transfer represented compensation for the patent and manufacturing facilities acquired. Meanwhile Oswald Schuette, executive secretary of the Radio Protective Association (anti-Radio Corp. radiomen) said that "this $6,000,000.000 monopoly was a challenge to the Department of Justice, the Federal Radio Commission and the Congress...