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...Standard Oil action three weeks ago (Time, April 6, et seq.). Gape-jawed Senators were told that General Electric (through its subsidiary Carboloy Co., Inc.) and Remington Arms (Du Pont-controlled) had conspired with German munitions interests (Krupp and I. G. Farben) to monopolize vital war materials, restrict their availability to the U.S. and Britain. Angry Carboloy and Remington officials made the familiar reply: if they had not made a deal to get.the German patents, the U.S. would have entered the war entirely without these vital materials*, not to mention the secret of how to make and use them. Carboloy...
...patent laws. Without such revision, the question plaguing the U.S. now will plague it even more at peace, when wartime-seizure powers no longer exist: How can a patent law encourage individual inventors without at the same time discouraging competition? Too often the patent laws have been used to restrict the use of new inventions rather than to assure an adequate reward to the inventor and their full enjoyment to the public...
Most U.S. plants restrict concerts to lunch periods and between shifts, but in many a factory tunes penetrate the clatter of machinery. When the battleship Alabama slid off the ways at the Norfolk Navy Yard, she had become known as "the rhythm ship'' because her welders, riveters and fitters were spurred on by recorded music ranging from symphonies to boogie-woogie. In Botany Worsted Mills' vast Passaic, N.J. plant (khaki for uniforms), light melodies rise above the din of weaving machines and shuttles for periods of five to 25 minutes, six times...
...picture of 18th-Century England until the time of the French Revolution. The whole thing lies much closer to a social chronicle than an orthodox history-book, and is more concerned with manners and tastes than with treaties and wars. All the same, I have certainly not sought to restrict the book to the merely decorative or picturesque it attempts a big canvas, deals seriously with human ideas and emotions, and seeks to portray human beings as truthfully as possible. Perhaps the book's character can be best summed up as concrete rather than abstract,' descriptive rather than...
...Because the Government does not restrict the sale of "salad onions" (onions with leaves), dealers peddled enormous onions, festooned with leaves, at quadruple the ordinary price...