Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hugh ("Stuffy") Dowding predicted with mysterious confidence, "Night bombing will be greatly reduced by spring." Since then repeated reports have come from England of Nazi raiders brought down in full darkness. Last week a clue to this amazing prediction and promise of fulfillment was provided by the U. S. Patent Office...
...granted to Joseph Lyman of Huntington, N. Y. a patent for a machine which uses radio beams to locate a plane in darkness or fog, plot its course through the skies on an indicator like a television screen. Anti-aircraft fire can thus be directed, it is thought, with even more accuracy than in present daylight firing...
Joseph Lyman's invention was supposed to be a big secret. But details were still available to anyone at the U. S. Patent Office this week, while Science Service discussed...
...present, only U. S. producer of magnesium is Dow Chemical Co., indicted last month with Aluminum Co. of America and three other firms for conspiring with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie to hold down U. S. production through patent control (TIME, Feb. 10). Dow produced the nation's 6,500 tons last year from Michigan brine wells, is now building a plant at Freeport, Tex., to extract another 6,500 tons a year from the Gulf's salt water. When the Freeport and Kaiser-Reilly plants are going full blast, U. S. production will jump...
...middle '20s, Arthur was president and Aroline had passed on Gove leadership to her daughter Lydia, a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), big-boned, scrappy spinster who became the Scarlett O'Hara of patent medicines. Lydia was impatient with Pinkham advertising. She wanted to pay out over 50% of gross sales for old-fashioned testimonial advertising. Arthur and his brothers (Vice President Daniel, Secretary Charles) wanted a more sophisticated modern campaign with expenditures not over 30%. With the board of directors deadlocked (three Pinkhams, three Goves), Lydia locked company securities in a safe deposit box, ran off with...