Word: patents
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Louis H. Crook, professor of aeronautical engineering at Washington's Catholic University, is a pint-sized (5 ft.) man of 61 with twinkling eyes and white hair. Last week, Professor Crook was a happy man: he had just won one of the biggest patent suits in U.S. history...
...less than a year Professor Crook got a patent: No. 1,645,643. Then he demonstrated models before the Army, Navy and other Government agencies. Always, he says, he got turndowns or runarounds...
...neomycin (TIME, April 4), has dreamed for years of better facilities for hunting new antibiotics and for teaching others to join in the search. Last week streptomycin and the generosity of Scientist Waksman brought the dream near reality. Rutgers University announced that Dr. Waksman had turned over his patent rights to the Rutgers Research and Endowment Foundation...
...young Charles off by motorcar to spend Easter at their new home at Windlesham Moor, 30 miles from London, in Surrey. The trip did not disturb the clocklike daily routine which Charlie's mother had decreed. Each morning at 6, he awoke for a breakfast of milk and patent cereal. Three other meals and long naps followed in due course under the watchful...
None of this information has been released by the tight-lipped Navy, but the latest Official Gazette of the U.S. Patent Office (sold to all askers for $17.50 per year) contains a fair description, between an automatic arc starter and a wire cheese slicer, of U.S. Patent 2,461,797, Zwicky's underwater...