Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor & management representatives canceled each other out, the final decision would have to come from the public's four men: a patent attorney (Chairman William H. Davis) and three college professors (Dean Morse, North Carolina's Frank P. Graham, and Pennsylvania's George W. Taylor). Whether the act turned out to be juggling, tumbling, or actual lion taming, it was going...
...Chicago News printed a report that Chrysler Corp. had taken a $100,000,000 contract to build a bomber engine plant in Chicago. Scooped correspondents besieged an officer responsible for such announcements. Said he: "Even if it's true, you can't print it," ignoring the patent fact that it had just been printed. The War Department then retreated to a second line: okay, the contract is news, but don't use the name or type of engine Chrysler is to build. Lieut. General William S. Knudsen characteristically ignored this piece of policy, told Chicago reporters that...
...prodigally democratic U.S. had very few real secrets left to keep when it went to war. Many, various and almost uncontrollable were the channels through which U.S. enemies could get vital wartime facts (insurance reports, sometimes to offices abroad, requiring detailed data on experimental aircraft, ships, etc.; Patent Office reports, available to all comers at 10? per copy; Congressional hearings, secret and unsecret, from which waves of gossip flowed to every legation and foreign listening post in Washington...
...pioneer of mass production through interchangeable parts, the typewriter industry ranks close behind Singer, Cadillac and Colt's Patent Fire Arms. Today its array of small precision tools is one of the most impressive in the U.S. WPB told the industry last week not to expect new special tools for its munitions work, but to use what it has. Not to save steel (typewriters took only some 25,000 tons last year) but to mobilize these tools was the main objective of WPB's curtailment plans...
...General Electric. Engineer-Lawyer Reed took only 14 years to go from G.E.'s lamp division to the shoes of Owen Young. Milwaukee-born, he got his engineering degree from Wisconsin (1921), his law degree (1924) at Fordham night school, while he clerked at Manhattan's patent law firm Pennie, Davis, Marvin & Edmonds. He got to G.E. via Van Heusen Products (collars) where he had handled some nasty patent problems, and to get there he foresightedly accepted an initial $7,500 a year salary...