Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herbert Hoover Jr., 44, a successful California geophysicist, was awarded Patent 2430983 for a "seismic amplifying system providing, in geophysical prospecting, for the controlled variation of seismic wave sensitivity during recording...
...gadget is not so new as it sounds; the U.S. Patent Office has similar inventions on file, dating back to 1931. The big difference is that CBS plans to give I.A.M.S. a dress preview early next year, with a national hookup to follow as soon as possible...
...Devil's Work. The Devil got around in New Orleans. Sometimes he even got into politics. In 1893, a baby boy was born in the righteous, Bible-pounding hill country north of the city. He grew up and sold a patent medicine for ailing women, worked his way through a three-year law course in eight months, and ten years later ran for governor. He was the people's darling. He was going to make the rich share their wealth with the poor, and make every man a king. His name was Huey Pierce Long and the people...
Snap Back. In Washington, a patent for a better mousetrap was awarded to Sir Isaac Newton...
Last night, in a dress rehearsal of the greatest social event of the decade, Hughes wore a black robe with white sash and a pair of spats over his patent eather bedroom slippers...