Word: patents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaigner had ever been surer that he was right, that his cause just. Wendell Willkie believed in his crusade with such patent sincerity that even the most partisan hearer took away some belief in him-as a man, if not as a candidate. And those who got the gospel were slightly dippy, like fresh religious converts so full of doctrine that they need not eat, drink or sleep...
...manufacturing in the other State if anyone asked for his license. Now his company has two subsidiaries, turns out a variety of products: compounds to waterproof wooden wagon wheels, oil to keep posters from warping, oils for paints and duplicator inks, a shoe filler (0. E.'s only patent) used by Florsheim to replace felt, an oil compound that gives transparency to one-piece window envelopes, etc. Small but sound, Scientific boasts a record free from layoffs, pay cuts, labor trouble. In its last published statement (1936) it reported earning $42,202 on sales of $2,671,868.41. This...
...look at our program (printed on the back of an old vice president). . . ." The Society's signature is Basin Street Blues, which at the close is played in the manner of Haydn's Farewell Symphony, the musicians leaving one by one until only Professor Harry ("Grumpy") Patent is left, slapping his doghouse. For all its clowning, the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street is rated, by jazzmen, as among the best jazz programs...
...minute compared to 140 feet before. C. M. P. prospered, first by rolling sheets for customers, later by building mills, then by licensing. But not everybody who cold-rolled dealt with C. M. P. In February 1934 American Sheet and Tinplate Co. (U. S. Steel subsidiary) was sued for patent infringement, lost in the Supreme Court in October...
Grandfather Berry had been "a grand old swell" who wore lavender trousers strapped under patent-leather boots. Father Wall was less dashing, but he left his son some good advice: "Never mind who or how charming your lady friend may be, always leave the money on the mantelpiece." When he was 18, young Berry's father and grandfather each left him more than $1,000,000. He soon ran through it, lived the rest of his life on somewhat less than $1,000,000 which his mother providently tied up in trust for him. Sometimes he eked out this...