Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiet, fast-moving Leo Crowley, U.S. Alien Property Custodian, wrote a letter to his Commander in Chief last week to tell him that by year's end he will have seized over 50,000 patents. That is virtually every U.S. patent held by citizens of enemy and enemy-occupied nations...
...Crowley pointed out, his patent grabs mean that "some of the finest research achievements of modern science" will be available to any interested U.S. manufacturer. His plums include: Krupp patents on heavy machinery, diesel engines, locomotives and metal alloys; I. G. Farbenindustrie's work on oil and coal products, aluminum and magnesium fabricating, etc.; Focke-Wulf and Dornier aircraft improvements. But for the long pull, the significant part of Leo Crowley's letter to the President was the outline he made of his patent policy. It was a patent reformer's dream...
Polaroid Corp. has an even more erudite scheme which will make use of the full standard-screen size and shape, will require no accessory beam splitter or double projector. In the vectograph, a Polaroid patent, the two pictures, one for each eye, are printed over each other on the same photographic film or paper. Incorporated with them is the polarizing material. When viewed with Polaroid glasses the picture is fully three-dimensional in ordinary light. When thrown on a screen from an ordinary projector the pictures are automatically polarized by the film, thus need only the viewing glasses...
...perfectly patent that the Federal Government has lagged in the current war far behind its understanding of the college manpower problem in the first world war, and has quite failed to show the prescience and purpose revealed by U.S. Secretary of War Newton D. Baker and those working with him when they established the S.A.T.C. I feel very clearly that TIME'S article [Sept. 28] will have a constructive effect in presenting to Federal authorities, particularly to the War Manpower Commission, the need for swift and intelligent planning and action. J. L. MORRILL...
Nevertheless, many sufferers "are so imbued with the idea of the contagiousness . . . that they have veritable phobias and are constantly scrubbing, using strong soaps, disinfectants, germicides and patent remedies on themselves, on their families and on all objects and utensils. . . . Once they are convinced that they are not 'unclean,' not a menace to themselves and to others, patients with superficial ringworm [athlete's foot] infections experience great psychic relief." A real cure of athlete's foot, the doctors add, often depends on eliminating the use of skin-damaging chemicals...