Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even Protestant officers . . . openly . . . wished they could have none but Catholic chaplains. It is patent that one who is out to save souls will accept any risk in the fighting line, whereas there was not much point in a chaplain who was a superior sort of entertainer putting his skin in danger." (U.S. chaplain mortality in World War I: one out of every 96 Protestants, one out of every 118 Catholics...
...over the Mississippi snags. And could she travel upstream against the current? Even Fulton had his doubts. He wrote: "I do not see by what means a boat containing 100 tons of merchandise can be driven six miles an hour in still water. . . ." He offered $100,000 for the patent on a boat that could...
...basis for sustaining the contention that there has been monopolization by Alcoa." Systematically, he had divided the case into 36 sections, each of which must be ruled on before he can make the final decision: whether to break Alcoa up. Three branches of law are involved: tariff law, patent law, the Sherman Act. The Government's charges were in twelve groups, for different branches of the industry: 1) bauxite; 2) water power; 3) alumina; 4) virgin aluminum, pig and ingot; 5) castings; 6) cooking utensils; 7) pistons; 8) extrusions and structural shapes; 9) foil; 10) miscellaneous fabricated articles...
Progress. In Washington a patent was awarded for a steak woven of meat "yarn...
...Sterling's officers a Government-underwritten legal out. Meanwhile, to rid the company of any pro-Nazi stigma, the directors last fortnight got Sterling a new president and chairman. (Messrs. Weiss and Diebold moved upstairs to head newly created Board committees.) The new chairman: Edward Sidney Rogers, international patent lawyer and adviser to the State Department. The new president: ex-Sterling treasurer, ex-U.S. Internal Revenue Bureau official, James Hill Jr. Mr. Rogers' knowledge of international law will be especially useful. For although Sterling is relatively safe in the U.S., it can expect trouble from 20 different...