Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gracious Living. In Washington, William Garstang applied for a patent on a machine to make monogrammed waffles...
...complex problem of patents, whereby most cartels are forged, Berge is less precise. The antitrust division has no intention of a large-scale attack on the present patent laws. To help even up the tremendous advantage big business has over little business in research and invention, Berge has suggested a Government-financed bureau of invention whose discoveries would be available to all. But there is the bigger problem of the international exchange of patents-e.g., how can U.S. industry get the real benefits of foreign patents without trading their...
...Make high heeled shoes and evening slippers for women, patent leather shoes and sandals for men, and use scrap leather bows as decorations...
Kentucky-born Cliff Berryman went to Washington when he was 17, as a protege of Kentucky's Senator Joe Blackburn who had admired his youthful talent. Earning his living as patent office messenger, he got his art education "for 20? a week" by copying the political cartoons in Puck and Judge. He sold his first cartoon to the Washington Post in 1889, got a regular job there two years later. In 1907 he switched to the Star, where his daily front-page cartoon remained a Washington landmark until...
...lower left corner of page 17 of the Cleveland News appeared a two-column patent medicine testimonial from a Mr. Alexander Kellough, of 2508 Morris Black Place, who rejoiced to find himself now rid of backache, insomnia, sour stomach and gas pains, and enthusiastically concluded: "Giljan is a wonderful medicine. Any person with trouble such as mine should lose no time in taking...