Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BUSINESSMAN WISHING TO USE A NAZI PROCESS SHOULD OF COURSE MAKE THE CUSTOMARY PATENT SEARCH. IF THERE IS NO U.S. PATENT THERE IS NO PROBLEM. IF THERE IS A U.S. PATENT TAKEN OUT BY AN ENEMY ALIEN, PATENT RIGHTS WILL BE CONTROLLED BY THE ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN...
...Tremendous [cigaret] campaigns are concocted out of nothingness. . . . Nostrums, patent medicines . . . stomach and head soothers . . . speak their own brand of falsehoods . . . through joke and jingle...
...from the Tomb. The scientists of the new Astromental Era had remade the Earth so completely that when "F.W." emerged from his coffin (he wore the swallow-tailed coat and cracked patent-leather shoes that he had been buried in), he could not believe that he was in California. The ground was as flat as a pancake. The whole world had become a garden city without political frontiers, war, disease or extremes of climate...
There was the man who sold spices, patent medicine, lice powder, chocolate, etc. Said he, looking deep into Author MacDonald's eyes: "I heard you got a new baby; organs all back in place O.K.?' . . . After I had put his mind to rest about my organs he told me about his hernia and I'm sure would have showed it to me if I had been a customer of a little longer standing...
Mark Twain paid his fee to this kind of greatness by pouring most of his fortune into a patent clamp to keep babies from rolling out of bed, a checkerboard game for teaching world history (he invented these himself), a patent steam generator, a steam pulley, a new method of marine telegraphy, a device for deodorizing gas-logs, copper type faces, a typesetter. When Author Twain entered old age, some half a million dollars in the red, he attributed his losses to the fact that the world was overrun with "idiots," "moral icebergs," "thieves,'' "swindlers" and "pirates." Outstanding...