Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hair stand right on end. A court test promptly was sought by the National Hairdressers' & Cosmetologists' Association (14,000 members), headed by able St. Louis Businesswoman Edna L. Emme. Miss Emme's claims: the croquignole process had been used in the U. S. before the Mayer patent; the patent was issued improperly; by purchasing machines from licensed manufacturers, the operators had bought the right to use the process anyway. At week's end, Judge Biggs took the case under advisement, started combing out the kinks...
...confusion over the objectives of the bill itself. But whatever course of action the U. S. chose, its attitude had all the earmarks of a gigantic national self-deception. For while men argued what form of campaign the U. S. should wage against Hitler, they refused to admit the patent fact that the U. S. was already in a modern-style, undeclared, short-of-fighting war-refused to admit that in a critical moment of history the U. S. had a part to play, would have to play it, was already playing...
...headlines. When the New Deal debated last summer whether to quit its trustbusting efforts for the duration of the defense effort, Thurman Arnold changed his tactics. Instead of attacking trusts for sins against a free economy, he attacked them for sins against defense. To reporters he talked darkly about patent monopolies through which German firms were holding up prices and production in the U. S. He talked particularly about magnesium, in which Aluminum Co. of America holds important patents jointly with the famous I. G. Farbenindustrie (German Dye Trust...
According to the indictments, Alcoa stopped manufacturing magnesium in 1927 and began buying it from Dow; Alcoa and I. G. Farbenindustrie also formed a patent combine (later joined by Dow) which refused to grant fabrication licenses to other processors except on condition that they buy from Dow. The alleged result: Dow was left the only U. S. producer, and the price of magnesium (now 27? a pound) was maintained about 50% over the price of aluminum (now 17?). The indictments asserted that Dow had delivered magnesium in Germany for less than its f.o.b. price...
...Hercules Powder Co. of Wilmington was assigned Patent No. 2,228,309 for an artillery gunpowder which is smokeless, moisture-resistant and flashless. Other such powders have been developed but they are complicated, costly, hard to handle. The new powder contains only three ingredients: nitrocellulose, dinitrotoluene, diphenylamine. These are treated with an alcohol-acetone solvent, mixed, squirted out in strands like spaghetti, finally pulverized to grain size...