Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government's 73-page complaint charged that A.T. & T. had eliminated competition by patent restrictions, purchase of competing companies, etc., and had set up Western Electric as the exclusive manufacturer and dealer for "substantially all" U.S. telephone equipment. "The absence of effective competition," said the complaint, "has tended to defeat effective public regulation of [telephone] rates . . . since the higher the prices charged by Western for telephone apparatus and equipment, the higher the plant investment on which [A.T. & T.'s] operating companies are entitled to earn a reasonable return...
...fortnight ago, readers got a frank letter-from-the-editor, in Charlie MacArthur's scuffed patent-leather prose. "The situation called for immediate action," he wrote. "We . . . sent for The Experts. [Then] we were wheeled into the operating room while The Experts did a complete plastic job . . . We feel as good as new. No squeak, no stoop, even no squawk . . . While we were under the anaesthetic, a soft rain of $1,000 bills...
Second Witch & Violet. Olivia's own case history would probably begin with her father. Walter de Havilland was a British patent attorney living in Tokyo, where Olivia was born in 1916. When she was about eight, an event occurred which -as any cocktail party psychoanalyst knows-was enough to give her complexes to last a lifetime. Her father (in the words of wife Lilian, he "spoke like God but behaved like the devil") decided to leave his wife and marry the De Havillands' Japanese maid. Mrs. de Havilland had already taken Olivia and her younger sister Joan...
Last September, Helen went to the New Haven unit of the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital. For some ten years doctors have had a technique for operating on the heart to remedy Helen's condition, patent (open) ductus arteriosus. The operation, usually performed on children, took four hours. The open duct was tied at each end and then cut; the heart was relieved of its extra work...
Xerography's inventor, Chester F. Carlson, 42, a New York patent attorney and physicist, produced his first Xerographic image in 1938. Company after company turned down the process until, in 1944, the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio finally took on the expensive job of perfecting...