Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Declared all patent agreements void between American and German corporations...
Ever since increasing U.S. aid to Britain began to show which way the wind was blowing, Axis interests in the U.S. have been in a frantic flurry of cleaning house, transferring cash and bank deposits to Latin-American nations, hiding stocks and bonds and patent rights in dummy accounts under U.S., Swiss or Swedish names. In Washington it was generally understood that, while the Administration knew this flight of Axis funds was going on, the State Department did not feel the U.S. was yet ready to crack down, risk possible Axis reprisals...
...toward economic warfare. When he froze the U.S. assets (and future financial transactions) of the 16 remaining unfrozen European countries (see p. 13), he did not merely lock the stable door too late. Though the big horse was gone, several ponies still fed in the U.S. stall. Dividends and patent royalties due Germans have been piling up in the U.S., providing dollars that could easily be used to finance the Gestapo in this Hemisphere as well as at home. Some of the newly frozen neutrals, notably Switzerland, have been financial servants of the Axis. The President's order locked...
Gene Tierney, 20, Hollywood's shapely Tobacco Roadster, and Count Oleg Cassini, 28, who was divorced last year by Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney, patent-medicine heiress, eloped to Las Vegas, Nev., and married...
George Edward Stone, the best friend U.S. trees ever had, died last week, aged 80, in Amherst, Mass. His were the scientific discoveries which lie behind the modern craft of tree surgery. In a number of patent fights, when professional tree surgeons claimed exclusive rights to tricks of their trade, Stone proved that he had long before anticipated them...