Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army medical research so far: he had stomach trouble, throat trouble, insomnia, imagined he had heart trouble, had a dread of getting fat, got prematurely bored with sex, acquired a stoop, a tremor in one arm and a drag in one leg, and turned yellowish from dosing himself with patent medicine...
...concentration is the forerunner of collectivism . . . are we preventing collectivism when . . . corporations controlled by five financial interest groups* hold nearly one-third of our capacity; when 2% of the concerns account for 62% of the total manufacturing employment; and when big corporations are granted the patent rights on the fruits of [wartime] scientific research conducted at the taxpayers' expense...
...filling them out. A recent one entitled None of Our Business disclosed, among such pertinent information as the fact that 87% of you own one or more cars and 48% of you go to church fairly regularly, the incidental intelligence that 8.7% of you (male) have taken out a patent on something you invented and 15.6% of you (male) take setting-up exercises in the morning...
Eversharp has already filed two patent infringement suits, for $2,000,000 apiece, against Ball and Kimberly, in addition to its $1,000,000 counterclaim against Reynolds (TIME, Nov. 12, 1944). But none of them seemed concerned. Said one manufacturer: "Nobody's done any copying. The ball principle dates way back to the last century...
...years were hard, but the Kuesters pulled through, says Gus, "by chickens, hogs and going without." They pulled through also thanks to the patient devotion of Elda Kuester. Over the years hogs paid the mortgage (today the land is worth $225 an acre), and the Kuesters received the final patent of ownership: the neighbors began to call the old Weaver place the Kuester farm. There were born Dale and a pretty daughter, Shirley, now 19, who sometimes acts as her father's official secretary, now lives and works in Atlantic, twelve miles away, as an operator for the telephone...