Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city, black (and transparent) nighties revealed the intimate mechanics of window dummies. Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray. Perfume was a preferred item. Despite staggering price tags ($1,000 foi a 72-oz. jug of Worth's Dans la Nuit), it sold like patent medicine. Customers reached for absurdly priced costume jewelry as eagerly as pygmy tribesmen bartering for trade beads...
High Prices. In Chicago's district court, antitrust intervened in a patent-infringement suit brought by the foundation. Last week antitrust charged that the foundation has conspired with 16 companies, including Standard Brands Inc., E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Pet Milk Co., Parke, Davis & Co., to suppress competition in the manufacture & sale of vitamin D. They also, said antitrust, limited the potency of vitamin D used in the widely advertised "enriched" bread, milk and other foods, thus preventing such foods from competing with the regular vitamin-D products...
Nine alumni started the foundation in 1925, which has no direct connection with the university. Each put in $100. They picked as president a crack patent lawyer, Chicago's grey-maned, hard-bitten George Haight. Since then, Haight has decided which companies will be licensed to use the Steenbock patents (each pays royalties, averaging 10% and less); how they shall advertise their vitamin products; what fields each could take. Example: Standard Brands could irradiate yeast, but nothing else. In all, the foundation has piled up a fund of $9,000,000. which eventually will go to the university...
Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, patent-leather-lunged idol, opened a three-week engagement at Manhattan's mammoth Paramount Theater, got the usual screaming reception from 30,000 bow-tied, bobby-soxed fans, who caused such a commotion that the Police Department responded with 421 policemen, 20 policewomen, 20 patrol cars, two trucks. The excitement had scarcely died down two days later, when an 18-year-old boy stood up in the theater, threw an egg that smacke'd Sinatra squarely between the eyes. The egger, one Alexander Ivanovich Dorogokupetz, was mobbed by Sinatra's fans but rescued...
...name was Lewis Burwell Puller, and leathernecks around the world have a special patent of excellence for him. "Chesty" Puller, one of the Corps' most famed field officers, is more than a good marine-he is known as a great marine...